William Robinson: Rise of the Global Police State & Global Civil War
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Professor William Robinson discusses the unprecedented systemic crisis of global capitalism which has brought about a global police state and global civil war. Years of turmoil are ahead of us as a crisis of chronic stagnation (over-accumulation) and state legitimacy has led to extreme repression in the face of acute inequality. The global economy and society has been militarized. Professor Robinson says the ruling groups are not omnipotent and are responding to the mass revolt from below. The pandemic allowed the transnational class to consolidate its grip on the global economy and form a Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Pentagon nexus. The pandemic served as a dry run for how digitalization is going to allow greater control over the working class. The transnational elite are united, including in Russia and China, in maximizing profit and keeping a clamp on rebellion from below. However, the global revolt is unprecedented in history and there is reason to be hopeful.
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Global Civil War (BOOK) https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1264
Global Police State (BOOK) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GQ7S2B5/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
About William Robinson
William Robinson is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. His scholarly research focuses on: macro and comparative sociology, globalization and transnationalism, political economy, political sociology, development and social change, immigration, Latin America and the Third World, and Latina/o studies.
As a scholar-activist he attempts to link his academic work to struggles in the United States, in the Americas, and around the world for social justice, popular empowerment, participatory democracy, and people-centered development.
At his website you will find links to his curriculum vitae, several hundred captioned photos from his research and travels around the world, and sample syllabi from courses he teaches at UCSB. Also available on his site are downloadable PDF files for his out-of-print 1992 book, A Faustian Bargain and the 2007 Spanish language edition of his book on global capitalism, Una Teoria sobre el Capitalismo Global, as well as links to a variety of academic and global justice websites.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by a professor of sociology at the University of California, |
| 0:05.4 | Santa Barbara William I. Robinson, among other books, he's the author of the global police |
| 0:11.0 | state and the forthcoming global civil war, capitalism post-pandemic. Professor Robinson, |
| 0:18.2 | bienvenino, and thanks for accompany me. |
| 0:21.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, it's, thanks. |
| 0:25.2 | We'll do this in English, I guess. |
| 0:26.8 | We can't do it both in Spanish, but for the English-speaking audience. |
| 0:31.7 | You know, your work on the global police state, as well as your new book on the global civil war, we find ourselves in is astounding. |
| 0:39.8 | And, you know, we now have a global elite class attempting to use technology to bring us all back to the medieval times. |
| 0:46.7 | But before we get to, you know, COVID-1984 in your new book, as I like to call it, COVID-1984, we should talk about your previous book, |
| 0:54.4 | Global Police State, which kind of sets the stage. For decades, I've been observing the construction |
| 0:59.0 | of this police state. More and more, you know, many of us are coming up against this police state. |
| 1:04.5 | I was recently banned from PayPal together with Mint Press and Consortium News, likely by the DHS and |
| 1:10.8 | its new Ministry of Truth, |
| 1:12.1 | which today they say they've paused, you know, the role of the disinformation governance board. |
| 1:18.6 | Governments are militarizing. |
| 1:20.5 | Tanks and weapons used in the Iraq War are being given to local police departments in the U.S. |
| 1:24.5 | Even here in Mexico, there's militarization. |
| 1:28.6 | The EU wants to read everyone's emails and messenger chats and on and on it goes. So as you see it, you know, what's what's going |
| 1:34.1 | on in the world, including, you know, with this development of a global police state. |
| 1:39.6 | Right. Well, the backdrop to all of this, the backdrop to global police state, the backdrop to what's |
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