Social Policy Review

  Capitalist globalisation, transnational class exploitation and the global police state: An interview with William I. Robinson William I Robinson Federico Fuentes 19 October, 2023 William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of numerous books including, Can Global Capitalism Endure? and A Theory of Global Capitalism: Transnational Production, Transnational Capitalists, and the Transnational State . In this extensive interview, Robinson discusses the rise of transnational class exploitation and how contradictions between a globally in...

The most important question that has ever been asked in human history is this: Will organized human life as we know it survive in the not so distant future? This is what scholars such as Noam Chomsky are posing as the most important existential question of the present generation, and to which all other moral considerations are moot. Apart from his dominance in the field of linguistics, Chomsky has been a formidable critic of US foreign policy with respect to human rights violations and military aggression around the world. The legacy of colonization and neo colonial hegemony, has left an imprint on Western culture that guides the dominant forces around the world. As Chomsky argues, the modern nation state and its legacy is the New Imperialism. Along with his colleague, the late Ed Herman, Chomsky developed a “propaganda model” demonstrating how the corporate “power elite” dominate the economic and political aspects of society. The corporate news media functions as a propaganda ...