• Author: Rastko Močnik
• Original title: Svetovno gospodarstvo in revolucionarna politika

This short but exceptionally rich work is a critique of the delusions in the theories of globalisation that is conducted by drawing on, developing, and reworking the theories that analyse the global system from the viewpoint of the political economy. Through the perspective of “long duration”, the author shows that globalisation is not something new and that its current form is not something inevitable. In his analysis, he points out the capitalistic foundations of globalisation and simultaneously analyses the political institutions that support this type of globalisation. In addition to the critique of the theories of globalisation, the work also provides an original analysis of the nation state, which is not disappearing, but is rather servicing the local processes of the accumulation of capital on a global scale. The book is an insightful theoretical analysis and also a strongly political text that calls for new modes of producing theories for a different world.

About the author

Rastko Močnik

Rastko Močnik (1944) is a retired Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His fields of interest are primarily the theories of ideology, the theories of discourses, theoretical sociology, theoretical psychoanalysis, semiotics, and the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. In the previous two decades, he has significantly contributed to the generational renewal of the local theoretical production in historical materialism.