The Advanced Capitalist State and the Contemporary World Crisis

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-96
Author(s):  
Joseph Camilleri
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary World ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

scholarly journals The Role Of Buddhist Ethics And Communication In The Contemporary World Crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Phramaha Pornchai Sripakdee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Buddhist Ethics ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
World Crisis

<p><em>In reality, man cannot live without communication; at least, he communicates something with himself, thoughts, for instance. In order to successfully communicate something as such, ethics concerning any kinds of communication should be taken into a critical examination; what kind of speech one should speak out, what kind of speech one should not speak out. In this article, an attempt was purposely made to discuss the role of Buddhist ethics and communication in the contemporary world crisis. In this, it is argued by Buddhist ethics that the communication should be subject to ethics because of man’s ideal life, without it, such communication will pose the danger to the chance in obtaining the goal, ideal life. </em></p>

Semi-peripheral countries and the contemporary world crisis

1976 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Immanuel Wallerstein
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary World ◽  
World Crisis

The Multitude and the Kangaroo: A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Theory of Immaterial Labour

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Camfield
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
Economic Foundation ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

AbstractHardt and Negri's theory of immaterial labour provides a socio-economic foundation in the contemporary world for the philosophical and political elements of their thought. Although there has been considerable engagement with Hardt and Negri's work, the socio-economic dimension of their thought has received little sustained attention. This is certainly true of their theory of immaterial labour. This article aims to remedy this oversight. It presents and scrutinises Hardt and Negri's concept of immaterial labour and its putative hegemony. It then examines the depiction of the world of paid work in advanced capitalist societies with which the theory is associated and looks at three alleged consequences of the rise of immaterial labour. It concludes that this dimension of Hardt and Negri's thought is profoundly flawed, that immaterial labour cannot play the role they wish to assign it in their theory, and that this failure suggests the importance of a different method of developing theory from that employed by Hardt and Negri, along with so many other contemporary writers.

Protecting capital from itself: U.S. attempts to regulate the Eurocurrency system

1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
The State ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Treasury Department ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

In 1979 and 1980 the U.S. government attempted to regulate the Eurocurrency system in order to stabilize the international monetary and financial systems, and for U.S. domestic monetary purposes. The conflict between the U.S. government (especially the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board) and U.S.-based transnational banks (TNBs) illustrates TNBs' contradictory interests, which are neither self-evident nor easily discernible, even to TNBs themselves. The state comes to play a mediating role vis-a-vis TNBs in an only partially successful attempt to transform contradictory interests into coherent policy, resulting in conflict between the state and TNBs. The origins of U.S. regulatory initiatives are rooted in multilateral attempts to supervise banks between 1974 and 1978, and the failure of such coordination during the 1978 dollar crisis. From the conflict between U.S. officials and U.S. TNBs emerge varying concepts of TNBs' interests. After examining the reasons for the failure of the U.S. proposals, I conclude by suggesting some implications of TNBs' contradictory interests for statist and social conflict theories of the advanced capitalist state. Few theories of the state have adequately taken into account the complexity and contradictory interests of transnational capital.

What Does It Mean to Control Migration? Soviet Mobility Policies in Comparative Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 395-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Light
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emigration And Immigration ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Travel Abroad

The migration policies of the former Soviet Union (or USSR) included a virtual abolition of emigration and immigration, an effective ban on private travel abroad, and pervasive bureaucratic controls on internal migration. This article outlines this Soviet package of migration controls and assesses its historical and international distinctiveness through comparison with a liberal state, the United States, and an authoritarian capitalist state, Apartheid South Africa. Soviet limitations on external migration were more restrictive than those of contemporary capitalist states, and Soviet regulation of internal migration was unusual in its direct bureaucratic supervision of the individual. However, Soviet policy did not aim at the suppression of internal migration, but at its complete regularization. The ultimate goal was “regime adherence”: the full integration of the citizen into the Soviet political order. In contrast to the USSR, migration in the contemporary world is marked by “irregularization”: policies that lead to the proliferation of insecure and unauthorized migration.

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