ABSTRACT
We conclude this book at the beginning of the new millennium. All the major forecasts suggest that globalization will continue and grow in the next century. There will be a continued shake-up of old stabilities, and a reproduction of societies and states as difference rather than homogeneity. The battle for the empowerment of human beings in the political realm will continue. Indeed, the Asian financial crisis that started in 1997, with its consequent unemployment and misery for millions, suggests that the good period may be over. The belief that the new global reorganization of capital would end the contradictions that condemn the majority of the world’s people to poverty can only be in doubt today.
