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Book SynopsisA critical look at the terrifying ways the police are used to control 'surplus' populations worldwide.
Trade Review'Every socialist should read this book'
-- Neil Faulkner, historian and archaeologist
'A field guide to repression in the 21st century, with its state control and new forms of surveillance and technological manipulation.'
-- Christopher McMichael, New Frame
'Robinson gives powerful theoretical coherence to everyone's fear that the fascism is being reborn, but adds the important twist that repression itself has grown into an essential engine of accumulation'
-- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of Slums' and co-author of 'Set the Night on Fire: Los Angeles in the Sixties'
'For the last twenty years, William Robinson has been one of the most important analysts of global capitalism and the dynamics of globalization. In this new work, Robinson turns his attention to the emergence of a 21st century "global police state" that has developed as a corollary to growing inequality, climate collapse, and intensifying migration movements of the dispossessed. As Robinson warns, with great deprivation comes great repression, policing and potentially war. Robinson writes pointedly and with urgency for a broad audience with an interest in mobilizing for a just world'
-- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of 'From #BlackLives Matter to Black Liberation'
'Karl Marx aspired to a world in which our animal needs would be satisfied and our human needs could be addressed. It is a realistic possibility now, as William Robinson outlines – or the alternative that is taking shape before our eyes: a 'global police state' controlled by narrowly concentrated capital with 'surplus humanity' left to survive somehow on its own. The choice is in our hands. There could hardly be a more compelling one'
-- Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and author of 'Who Rules the World?'
‘A crucial reflection on power, capitalism and war globally … The Global Police State provides an accessible and compact overview of repression and corporate expansion into policing and surveillance.’
-- ‘ROAR’
Table of ContentsA Brief Acknowledgment of Collective Authorship
List of Acronyms
Introduction: “George Orwell Got It Wrong”
1. Global Capitalism and its Crisis
2. Savage Inequalities: The Imperative of Social Control
3. Militarized Accumulation and Accumulation by Repression
4. The Battle for the Future
Notes
Index
