CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF WORLD-SYSTEMS
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper discusses continuities and transformations of systemic logics and modes of accumulation in world historical evolutionary perspective and the prospects for systemic transformation in the next several decades. It also con-siders the meaning of the recent global financial meltdown by comparing it with earlier debt crises and periods of collapse. Has this been just another fi-nancial crisis like the ones that have periodically occurred over the past 200 years, or is it part of the end of capitalism and the transformation to a new and different logic of social reproduction? I consider the contemporary network of global counter-movements and progressive national regimes that are seeking to transform the capitalist world-system into a more humane, sustainable and egalitarian civilization and how the current crisis is affect-ing the network of antisystemic movements and regimes, including the Pink Tide populist regimes in Latin America and the anti-austerity movements. I describe how the New Global Left is similar to, and different from, earlier global lefts. The point is to develop a comparative and evolutionary frame-work that can discern what is really new about the current global situation and that can inform collectively rational responses.
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Christopher Chase-Dunn
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