![]() ![]() The period from 2008 into the third decade of the twenty-first century has been one long protracted crisis that, far from resolved, has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. If the history of capitalism is one of never-ending transformation, crises often mark before-and-after turning points. ![]() In the long run, however, it is difficult to see how global capitalism can continue to reproduce itself without a much more profound overhaul than is currently on the horizon, if not the outright overthrow of the system. If some regulatory or redistributive reform actually comes to pass, restructuring may, depending on the play of social and class forces, unleash a new round of productive expansion that attenuates the crisis. Beyond transnational policy coordination among states, the structural power that the transnational capitalist class is able to exercise from above over states will undermine reform unless there is a mass counter-mobilization of power from below. The agents of global capitalism are attempting to purchase for the system a new lease on life through this digital restructuring and through reform that some among the global elite are advocating in the face of mass pressures from below. Now the system is undergoing a new round of restructuring and transformation based on a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society. There is an extreme and still increasing concentration and centralization of capital on a global scale in the financial conglomerates that in turn act to interlock the entire mass of global capital. The era of globalization has involved an ongoing radical transformation in the modalities of producing and appropriating surplus value. ![]() ![]() Abstract: The period from 2008 into the third decade of the twenty-first century has been one long protracted crisis for global capitalism, as much structural as political, that has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. ![]()
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