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Book SynopsisIn Cuba Was Different, Even Sandvik Underlid explores the views of Cuban authorities, official press, and Party members as they reflect back on the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European socialism. In so doing, he contributes to a better understanding as to why the Cuban system – often associated with Fidel Castro’s leadership – did not itself collapse. Despite the loss of its most important allies, key ideological referents, and even most of its foreign trade, Cuba did not embrace capitalism. The author critically examines and analyzes the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe as reported in the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, both as they unfolded and subsequently through the lens of additional interviews with individual Party members. This focus on Cuba’s Communist Party provides new perspectives on how these events were seen from Cuba and on the notable resilience of many party members.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 : The Collapse According to Granma 1 Written Sources on the Collapse 2 Granma and the Written News as a Method 3 Analyzing the News Accounts 4 Reflections on the Written News Part 2 : 5 Contextualizing the Testimonies 6 Oral Source Methodologies 7 Analysis of the Interviews 8 Insights from the Oral Testimonies Conclusion: Viewing the Collapse through the PCC Lens Afterword Appendix 1: Information for the Interviewees Appendix 2: Interview Guide Appendix 3 : Core Sources Appendix 4: Example Table for Data Visualization Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Impact of Innovation on Globalization is the eighth volume of the series China in the World. Like other volumes in the series, this volume includes views of leading Chinese scholars on China’s relations with other countries and regions in the world. In view of the theme of “globalization” in this volume, the contributors in this volume pay attention to how the Covid-19 pandemic impacts and challenges globalization, especially how it affects China, the United States, and their mutual relations. However, this is not to say that some issues surrounding globalization—the orientation and interrelationship of political and economic decision-making in China and the United States—have emerged only after the outbreak of the pandemic. The volume focuses on some long-term trends and innovations, from the past to the future. Chapter 2, “Globalization, Convergence, and China’s Economic Development,” describes the patterns of globalization. Chapter 3, “The Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation is Unstoppable,” talks about views on current economic and financial issues. Chapter 4, “Reconstructing Global Industrial Chains under the Pandemic, and China’s Response,” discusses China’s pivotal position in global supply chains. Besides answering these basic questions, the book investigates other important issues, such as Global Value Chains, Changes in the International Order, Changes in the International Economic Landscape, WTO Reform, China’s Foreign Economic and Trade Strategies, Towards a Climate Resilience Society, Identity Politics, and the AI “Revolution”.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Journals 1 Introduction: How Will Globalization Continue?  Shao Binhong and He Huaihong 2 Globalization, Convergence, and China’s Economic Development  Cai Fang 3 The Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation Is Unstoppable  Guo Shuqing 4 Reconstructing Global Industrial Chains under the Pandemic, and China’s Response  Huang Qifan 5 Global Value Chains, National Value Chains, and Economic Growth: Substitutional or Complementary?  Sheng Bin, Su Danni, and Shao Chaodui 6 Change in the International Order—and China’s Options  Tang Shiping 7 Changes in the International Economic Landscape and China’s Strategic Options in the Next Fifteen Years: Research Group for “Changes in the International Economic Landscape and China’s Strategic Options”  Development Research Center of the State Council 8 wto Reform: The Global Approach and China’s Position  Liao Fan 9 Adjusting China’s Foreign Economic and Trade Strategies Is in Line with Its Own Strategic Interests  Yu Zhi 10 Towards a Climate Resilience Society: Challenges and Prospects  Sun Shao 11 What Kind of Globalism Does the Trump Administration Want?  Li Xiangyang 12 Identity Politics and the Evolution of World Order  Kong Yuan 13 The “Proximate Sorrows” and “Distant Worries” of the AI “Revolution”: An Ethical and Ontological Analysis  Zhao Tingyang Index

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses five cases of hatred politics on the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan (assumed office in 2003), Hungary under Orbán (assumed office in 2010), India under Modi (assumed office in 2014); the Philippines under Duterte (assumed office in 2016) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (assumed office in 2019). How did they come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face? Country case studies lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of this novel political form. Analyses of their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic further shed light on their methods in a time of crisis and a chapter that considers the Trump presidency indicates how we can understand these leaderships given their pronounced counterpart in the Global North – and vice-versa. This is not a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, but the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor: an international taskforce to respond to a global phenomenon. Contributors are: Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Daniel Feldmann, Ágnes Gagyi, Daniel Geary, Tamás Gerőcs, Sefika Kumral, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ilhan Can Ozen and Aparna Sundar.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital   Cecilia Lero 2 Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Turkey   Sefika Kumral 3 Global Crisis and the Realignment of Eastern European Capitalist Class Alliances The Case of Hungarian Illiberalism   Tamás Gerőcs and Ágnes Gagyi 4 Modi’s New India Hatred, Dispossession, Desperation   Aparna Sundar 5 Can Democracies Die Democratically? Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines   Cecilia Lero 6 Understanding the Myth Bolsonaro’s Brazil   Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos 7 Comparisons   Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos 8 The Pandemic as an Opportunity   Daniel Feldmann, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs and Ilhan Can Ozen 9 It Can’t Happen Here Trump Viewed from the Margins   Daniel Geary Index

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Book SynopsisWhat were the changes in the international position of the Brazilian state during the Lula and Cardoso administrations? How were the classes and class fractions represented? These are the questions that Tatiana Berringer's work seeks to answer. Using the theoretical instruments of the Marxist Nicos Poulantzas, the book identifies the class interests that directed the international action of the Brazilian state. With notable originality, the text presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy, as well as a rich interpretation of the class struggle in current Brazilian politics. The author offers the reader her reflections on the political crisis of 2016 and the foreign policy of the Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1 Power Bloc: Brazilian Theory and Policy  1 Theory: The Power Bloc and International Relations  2 Theory: Power Bloc and Foreign Policy Analysis 2 The fhc Governments: Neoliberalism, Power Bloc and Foreign Policy  1 Neoliberalism  2 Neoliberalism and the Power Bloc in Brazil  3 Foreign Policy in the fhc Governments  3.1 Adherence to the Missile Technology Control Regime (mtcr)  3.2 The Efforts to Reactivate the InterAmerican Treaty for Reciprocal Assistance (itra)  3.3 ftaa, mercosur and the Internal Bourgeoisie  3.4 Regional Politics between 1998 and 2000: The mercosur Crisis and the Launching of the irsa i  3.5 The Lafer Administration and the Brazilian State’s Passive Subordination to Imperialism  3.6 The 2002 Elections  3.7 The ftaa and the 2002 Elections  3.8 The Internal Bourgeoisie and the 2002 Election  3.9 The pt and the 2002 Elections 3 The Lula Governments: Neo-developmentalism, Power Bloc and Foreign Policy  1 Neo-developmentalism and Power Bloc  1.1 A Brief Review of Some of the Analytical Literature on the Lula Governments’ Social and Economic Policies  2 Foreign Policy during the Lula Governments  2.1 South-South Coalitions  2.2 Haiti  2.3 Regional Integration  2.4 Africa  2.5 The Middle East  2.6 China  2.7 European Union  2.8 The imf  2.9 The United States  2.10 Defense Policy  2.11 The Lula Governments’ Foreign Policy and the Neo-developmentalist Front  2.12 The Brazilian State’s Position in Regard to Imperialism  2.13 The Political Organization of the Neo-developmentalist Front  2.14 The Internal Bourgeoisie and the South-South Foreign Policy  2.15 Contradictions among Sectors Composing the Internal Bourgeoisie  2.16 The Unstable Equilibrium of Compromises and Foreign Policy  2.17 The Party-Political Dispute and Foreign Policy 4 Brazil and South America  1 Brazilian State and South America: Imperialism, Sub-imperialism and Neo-developmentalism  1.1 Brazilian Imperialism  1.2 Brazilian Sub-imperialism  1.3 Neo-developmentalism and Regional Politics  2 People’s Movements and Unionism in Relation to Regional Integration Processes in South America  2.1 Brazilian People’s Movements and Unionism and Regional Integration in the 1980s and 1990s  2.2 The People’s Classes and Regional Integration during the pt Governments 5 Brazil under fhc and Lula 6 Power Bloc and Foreign Policy in the Dilma, Temer and Bolsonaro Governments  1 The Dilma Government: Foreign Policy, Political Crisis and Power Bloc  1.1 Foreign Policy in the Dilma Governments  1.2 The Power Bloc, the Political Crisis and Foreign Policy  2 The Temer Government and the Return to Passive Subordination  2.1 Brazil’s Trade and Production Structures Compared with the World  2.2 The Brazilian State’s Re-embracing of Passive Subordination  2.3 Decadent External Insertion and Dependent Productive Structure  2.4 ‘Weak Meat’  3 The Bolsonaro Government and Its Explicit Passive Subordination to Imperialism: The Neofascist Alliance  3.1 Foreign Policies of the Bolsonaro Government and the Trump Government: The Neofascist Alliance  3.2 A New Stage in Brazil-USA Relations: The Biden Government References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, Graphs and Diagrams Foreword Introduction Part 1 Capitalism and the Human Hecatomb 1 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demolishes the “End of Work” Fallacy  1 Introduction  1.1 Debates and the Re-articulation of the World of Work  2 Conclusion 2 Precarious Labor and the Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor  1 Introduction  1.1 Globalization of the Law of Value and the Super-Exploitation of Labor  1.2 The Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor Does Not Cancel the Dependency: It Only Redefines It  2 Conclusion Part 2 Expansion, Crisis, and the Deterioration of Capitalism 3 The Crisis of World Capitalism  1 Introduction  1.1 Coronavirus-Accelerated System Decline  1.2 The End of the “Long Expansion” in the United States: The Locomotive Slows Down  1.2.1 The Hegemonic Crisis of U.S. Imperialism  2 Conclusion Part 3 The Sociology of Digitalization: The World of Dehumanized Labor in the Vicissitudes of the Global Hecatomb of Post-Pandemic Capitalism 4 The Pandemic Accelerates and Deepens the Crisis of Capitalism and Enriches the Multibillionaires  1 Introduction  1.1 The World of Work in the Post-pandemic Period  1.2 covid-Cide, Precariousness, and Death in Transnational Maquilas in Mexico  2 Conclusion 5 Remote Work, the Home Office, Digital Platforms, and the Super-Exploitation of Labor  1 Introduction  1.1 Platform Capitalism  1.1.1 Remote Work  1.1.2 The Home Office in the Fashion of the House  1.1.3 Regulating Remote Work and the Home Office  1.2 The Factory of the Future as a Builder of Skills and Talents  2 Conclusion 6 The Vicissitudes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution  1 Introduction  1.1 Marx’s Theory of Value and the Fourth Industrial Revolution  1.2 Three Industrial Revolutions  1.3 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Making  1.3.1 Revolution 4.0: Variable or Constant Capital?  1.3.2 Productive and Unproductive Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution  1.3.3 The Digital Factory and the Law of Value  2 Conclusion   Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx’s theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Rick Kuhn 1 The Area of Galicia After Its Occupation by Austria 2 The Industry and Trade Policies for Galicia of Maria Theresia’s and Joseph II’s Governments, 1772–90 (A Lecture at the Fifth Congress of Polish Lawyers and Economists) 3 Official Statistics of Galicia’s Foreign Trade to 1792 Austria’s Trade Policy, with Reference to Galicia during the Reform Period 1772 to 1790 Preface Introduction Part 1 The Relationship with the German-Slav Hereditary Lands of the Monarchy, 1772–76 1 The Provisional Form of the Customs System, 1772–73 2 The Reform of Old Polish Legislation, 1774 3 Special Privileges Granted to Improve Galician Trade, 1773–75 4 Plans for a New System of Regulating Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands, 1775–76 Part 2 Galicia’s Relationship with Poland, 1772–90 5 The Significance of the Vistula Trade Route to Gdańsk for Galicia 6 Attempts to Conclude a Trade Treaty with Poland 7 The Trade Treaty of 15 March 1775. Its Ratification. The Tariff of 1 October 1776 8 Supplementary Provisions 9 The Implementation of the Treaty. An episode of Tariff War. The Extent of Austrian-Polish Trade Relations Part 3 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1776–84 10 The ‘Provisional’ Tariff of 28 December 1776 11 The Galician Tariff of 3 January 1778 12 The Struggle over Brody’s Privileges, 1778–79 13 Livestock Export Policy and the Organisation of the Cattle Trade 1772–90 Part 4 The Austro-Prussian Relationship and the Struggle for Supremacy in Germany between 1772 and 1790 14 The Economic Background to the Antagonism between Austria and Prussia 15 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Silesia 16 Prussian Policy on Trade between Galicia and Gdańsk 17 Austria’s Attitude to Prussia. The Period under Maria Theresia, 1773–80 18 Continuation. The Period of Joseph II, 1780–90 Part 5 Galicia’s Relationship with the Hereditary Lands and Hungary, 1784–90 19 The Tariff Reform of 1784 20 The Extension of the Reform Part 6 Galicia’s Trade Relations with the South and the South-East, 1772–90 21 The Effort to Open New Export Routes through Trieste 22 Trade with Turkey and to the Black Sea. The Trade Treaty of 1 November 1785 with Russia Final Observations Appendices Appendix 1, to page 102: Some Remarks on the Relationship between the State and the Nobility Appendix 2, to page 111: Joseph II’s Economic Policy in Hungary Appendix 3, to page 282: The Tariff of 2 January 1778 Appendix 4, to page 289: The Promotion of Linen Exports Appendix 5, to page 295: The Official Language The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality References Index

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Book SynopsisThe book discusses public policy, business strategies, building diverse and inclusive societies, securing climate justice, and building business resilience for the future, analyzing India and Europe simultaneously with the help of comparative design along with dedicated chapters on single country or region from the two entities.

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