Introduction to Modules

• Module 1: Introduction-Contents

We live in a world of seemingly frenetic and radical changes in the global political economy. The computer age has instantaneously connected peoples all across the globe; thus destroying the traditional barriers of time and space. Capitalists are now able to engage in transactions worth billions of dollars each and every day....

• MOD1 Neoliberal Globalization (Part A)

ILO Report Sees Wide Gaps in Wages, Productivity Gains International Labour Organization December 9, 2005

• MOD1 Neoliberal Globalization (Part B)

Globalization refers to the process of reducing barriers between countries and encouraging closer economic, political, and social interaction. Globalization could vastly increase the ability of people everywhere to improve their living standards by sharing knowledge and the fruits of human labor across those barriers. W.K.Tabb, Monthly Review

• MOD2 Imperialism, Geopolitics, and United States Foreign Policy

Mainstream analysts of United States foreign policy usually argue that the U.S. is motivated by humane motives in its international relations. Whether they say the United States is promoting freedom, or democracy, or economic development, or Christian values, they categorically reject any hint that the U.S. pursues empire...

• MOD 3 Envisioning Socialism

After the collapse of the Eastern European socialist states and the economic and political crises engendered among those states that remained socialist interest in socialism diminished. Some progressives embraced the slogan of Margaret Thatcher: “There is no Alternative.” Other progressives looked inward, taking a self-critical attitude toward all that they had believed in, and embraced various forms of nihilism.