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Class notes Academic Skills for Political Scientists III (7322N022IY) Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
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William Robinson's Analysis on the Emergence of 21st-Century Fascismin the Context of Global Capitalism's Crises
William Robinson's study, "Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism:
Beyond the Trump Hype," provides a sobering examination of the growth of twenty-first-century
fascism amid the unstable backdrop of global capitalism's crises. Robinson's major thesis centres
on the advent of a different type of fascism, profoundly entwined with transnational capital and
distinguished by its alignment with a global police state. This fascism, he claims, is
fundamentally different from the historical fascisms of the twentieth century.
The Center of Robinson's argument is the idea that the continuing global capitalism
crisis, gaping chasms of economic disparity and severe instability, provide an ideal ground for
the emergence of far-right parties. He claims that the crisis is a spark for the rise of 21st-century
fascism in the global arena. Trumpism, the concept that encapsulates Donald Trump's rise to
prominence, offers a painful case study. Despite its allegedly nationalist language, Robinson
demonstrates how Trumpism embraces the traits of 21st-century fascism.
The notion of the TCC, a complicated web of economic elites rooted in global markets, is
central to Robinson's thesis. He notes that this group is not homogeneous, with reformist
components arguing for light redistribution and global control as well as more typical capitalist
factions. These reformist voices, Robinson argues, appear to be losing clout as the crisis worsens,
confounding the dynamics inside the TCC.
He presents a clear image of the global elite's internal fissures, which are growing in line
with the disintegration of the global capitalist historic bloc. This unravelling, he believes, may
provide opportunities for subaltern classes, the disenfranchised and oppressed, to form political
coalitions against the approaching menace of fascism. The author advocates for a unified front
against fascism, pushed and guided by the agency of popular and working-class forces, and
armed with a clear understanding of global capitalism's intricacies and its multifarious problems.
Robinson examines the efficiency of liberal and reformist policies that have fervently
embraced ideas of multiculturalism, diversity, and identity politics in stinging criticism. He
contends that, rather than attaining their stated aims of social justice and anti-capitalist reform,
these policies have unwittingly led to the growth of the extreme right. They have, in part, pushed
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