Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalization, New Resistances and the Postmodern Age -- THE LONG AND BLOODY MARCH OF GLOBALIZATION -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS -- THE METAMORPHOSIS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- OLD AND NEW POLITICS -- Part One. Globalization -- 1 The Epochal Shift -- THE FACTS ON TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY -- A CAUTIONARY NOTE: NATION-STATE BIAS OF ECONOMIC DATA -- THE GLOBALIZATION OF JAPANESE -U.S.CAPITAL RELATIONS -- 2 Epochal Clashes: Third Worldization and the New Hegemon -- THE 20 -80 SOCIETIES -- NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE EPOCH OF GLOBALIZATION -- TRANSNATIONAL CLASS FORMATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL STATE -- GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL HEGEMONY -- 3 High-Tech Robber Barons: Heisting the Information Age -- WORKERS IN THE HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY -- THE KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES -- MONOPOLIZING THE LIFE SCIENCES -- THE MEDIA CONGLOMERATES -- THE HIGH-TECH BANKING INDUSTRY -- THE POLITICAL OPERATIVES OF THE INFORMATION AGE -- Part Two. Politics in a Postmodern Age -- 4 Shades of Postmodern Politics -- IDEOLOGY AND POSTMODERN POLITICS -- ALL THAT 'S LEFT -- POSTMODERN LEFT VS.POSTMODERN RIGHT -- 5 The ( Un) defining of Postmodern Marxism -- MODERNIZATION AND PROGRESS -- THE NEW SOCIAL ACTORS -- THE CASTAWAYS -- 6 The Virtually Existing Global Revolution -- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- AN EVOTOPIA? -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXTUALIZATION OF ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- THE PERSONAL AS THE POSTMODERN POLITICAL -- THE BATTLE OF SEATTLE AND THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION -- Part Three. Zapatistas and the Latin American Context(ualization) -- 7 Socialist and Postmodern Politics in the Americas -- THE EPOCHAL SHIFT AND SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONS -- SANDINISTAS ON THE CUSP -- THE CHILEAN TRAGEDY -- THE RESURGENCE OF RURAL MOVEMENTS -- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- THE NEW SOCIAL MOBILIZATIONS.

8 Roots of the Postmodern Rebellion in Chiapas -- THE POVERTY OF PROGRESS IN CHIAPAS -- THE NEO-COLONIAL BACKDROP -- THE CAPITALIST ONSLAUGHT -- THE PETROLEUM BOOM -- THE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL -- THE NEW CLASS SOCIETY -- DEMOCRACY AND REBELLION -- 9 Zapatismo and the Intergalactic Age -- FOR A WORLD WHERE MANY WORLDS FIT -- RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY -- LIBERTY, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY -- CREATING ALTERNATIVE GLOBAL NETWORKS OF RESISTANCE -- THE INTERGALACTIC ENCOUNTER AND THE NEO-ZAPATISTA INTERNATIONAL OF HOPE -- CRACKS IN THE MIRROR AND MULTIMEDIA SUBVERSIVES -- Epilogue The Millennial Cracks -- CRACKS AMONG THE ELITES -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- Index -- Adams, James, World Bank, 149 -- AFL-CIO 157n -- AFL-CIO, 2 -- Africa -- 3 -- 72 -- African National Congress -- 24 -- 79 -- agriculture -- and biodiversity, 59 -- Chiapas, 119-20 -- Chiapas, 121-2 -- Chiapas, 125-6 -- small scale producer, 93 -- Aguascalientes [Zapatista gathering] -- 139 -- 161n -- Allende, Salvador 3 -- alternative economies -- 92-4 -- and 'evotopias', 94-7 -- Latin America, 111-13 -- social context of, 97-8 -- Althusser, Louis 83 -- American Federation of Teachers 1 -- Amherst school of postmodern Marxism 83 -- anarchists, Seattle 146 -- anti-war movements 74 -- AOL [America On Line] 56 -- AOL-Time Warner 60 -- arms race, and collapse of Soviet Union 4 -- Armstrong, C. Michael 53 -- Asia -- 3 -- 29 -- economic crisis [ 28 -- economic crisis [ 30 -- economic crisis [ 38 -- economic crisis [ 145 -- nature of democracy in, 72 -- Association for Social and Economic Analysis 83 -- AT&T, merger with TCI 53 -- automobile industry, US and Japanese 35-6 -- Balibar, Etienne 83 -- Banc One bank conglomerate 62.

Bank of England, independence -- 8 -- 43 -- BankAmerica bank conglomerate 62 -- banking industry -- 52 -- 61-3 -- regulatory controls on, 63 -- banks -- community, 96 -- microcredit, 93 -- Barrett, Craig, Intel corporation -- 52 -- 54 -- Barrett, Michele 83 -- Bertelsmann media conglomerate 60 -- Bhutto, Benazir 63 -- bio-engineering of crops 58-9 -- bio-technology companies -- 52 -- knowledge monopolies, 58-9 -- Black Bloc anarchists 146 -- Blair, A., UK Prime Minister -- 8 -- 43 -- 148 -- Bolivia, rural movement -- 110 -- 145 -- bourgeoisies -- national, 44 -- transnational, 45 -- transnational, 47 -- transnational, 48-9 -- Brazil -- 24 -- 29 -- financial crisis, 38 -- landless movement, 110 -- caciques, in Chiapas -- 120 -- 123 -- California, income inequality -- 40 -- 54-6 -- Camdessus, Michel, IMF 147 -- Canada, polarization of wealth 40 -- Cancun Summit [Mexico 1982] 22 -- capital -- and national economic data, 33-5 -- transnational, 32-3 -- transnational, 44-5 -- capital flows 25-30 -- capital markets, world 30-1 -- capitalism -- 3 -- 22-3 -- 50 -- alternative models, 11 -- and concept of progress, 85-7 -- changes in 14-15 -- changes in 24-5 -- changes in 83-4 -- changes in 106-7 -- expansion of, 45-6 -- flexible accumulation model, 72-3 -- historical development of, 21-3 -- laissez faire, 10-11 -- Carnegie, Andrew -- 52 -- 62 -- Carter administration [US] 42 -- Case, Stephen, AOL 54 -- Castellanos Dominguez, General Absalon, governor of Chiapas 124 -- Castells, Manuel, The Information Age -- 45 -- 51 -- CBS, control of -- 53-4 -- 60 -- CEMEX [Mexican cement producer] 41 -- Central America -- 95 -- plantations, 112 -- Chamorro, Violeta, Nicaragua 109 -- Chavez, Hugo, Venezuela 113 -- Chiapas -- agriculture, 119-20 -- agriculture, 121-2 -- agriculture, 125-6 -- civil society in 116 -- economy and wealth, 117-18.

economy and wealth, 119-20 -- petroleum boom, 122 -- petroleum boom, 125 -- poverty, 118 -- social movements, 123-5 -- Chile -- Allende government, 3 -- Allende government, 105 -- Allende government, 109-10 -- and future of Pinochet, 114 -- rebellion of Mapuches, 110-11 -- US intervention in, 106 -- US intervention in, 107 -- US intervention in, 109 -- China -- 81 -- 82 -- FDI in, 29 -- Chossudovsky, Michel, The Globalization of Poverty 38 -- churches, campaigns against globalization 97 -- Citibank 63 -- Citigroup bank conglomerate 62 -- citizen empowerment 100-1 -- civil disobedience, at Seattle 99 -- civil rights movements -- 74 -- 80 -- 88 -- civil society -- 97 -- and global networks, 136-7 -- definition of, 134 -- in Chiapas, 116 -- in Chiapas, 129 -- Zapatista focus on, 113 -- Zapatista focus on, 130 -- Zapatista focus on, 131 -- Zapatista focus on, 132-4 -- Zapatista focus on, 140 -- class formation -- in nation states, 43-4 -- in nation states, 48 -- transnational, 29 -- transnational, 43-8 -- class relations -- in Chiapas, 125-7 -- in late capitalism, 72-3 -- international, 44 -- international, 47-8 -- within nation states, 38 -- within nation states, 44 -- within nation states, 48 -- Clinton, W., US President -- 8 -- 69 -- 70-1 -- 148 -- Committee for the Defense of Indian Liberty, Chiapas 127 -- communications industry -- 52 -- Japanese and US, 36 -- communism, collapse of -- 4 -- 22 -- 69 -- 73-4 -- community -- 93 -- European single, 32 -- world trade in, 31-2 -- community schemes -- 93-4 -- 96-7 -- computer industry 52 -- conservatism 71 -- cooperatives -- marketing and financial, 94 -- worker-run, 93 -- corporate accountability movement 100 -- corporations -- legal status of, 100 -- national, 24 -- national, 29 -- national, 43-4 -- relationship to state, 101 -- transnational, 26-7.

transnational, 29 -- transnational, 49 -- counter-culture -- 11 -- 74 -- crime, organized 63 -- Cuba -- 3 -- 105-6 -- socialist model, 107-8 -- cultural wars, in US 80 -- culture, in postmodern age 75-6 -- Daewoo Corporation -- 29 -- 32 -- debt cancellation 9 -- decision-making, at local level 100-1 -- Del Monte Corporation 41 -- democracy -- 101 -- and modern politics, 72 -- and neo-liberalism, 107 -- capitalism, 10-11 -- effect of knowledge economy on, 95 -- effect of media monopolies on, 61 -- hierarchical, 8-9 -- Zapatista concept of, 135 -- democratic movements, use of Internet -- 81 -- 141-4 -- deregulation, economic 42 -- derivatives, trading in 63 -- Derrida, Jacques 83 -- developing countries -- FDI flows, 28-9 -- FDI flows, 28 -- FDI from, 29 -- FPEI flows, 30 -- dictatorships, US policy towards -- 5 -- 106-7 -- 108-10 -- Direct Action Network -- 2 -- 10 -- 146 -- Disney World 52 -- Dow Chemicals, patents 57 -- DuPont corporation 58 -- Duvalier, 'Baby Doc' 5 -- Earth First 2 -- East Timor 81 -- Eastern Europe, social changes in -- 73-4 -- 78 -- Echeverria, Luis, Mexican president -- 119 -- 123 -- 126 -- ecofeminist politics 80 -- economies, alternative -- 92-8 -- 111-13 -- Ecuador, Indian uprisings -- 111 -- 145 -- Edison, Thomas 57 -- education, role of 99 -- Eisner, Michael -- 52 -- 54 -- El Salvador 3-4 -- elites, splits within 147-9 -- Employee Stock Ownership Plans 93 -- employment -- flexible, 55 -- flexible, 90 -- in high-tech companies, 54-6 -- in high-tech companies, 95 -- skilled, 94 -- skilled, 95-6 -- Enlightenment, the -- 3 -- 11 -- 86 -- 157n -- entertainment corporations 52 -- environmental movement -- 1 -- 80 -- 97 -- Escobar, Arturo, Encountering Development 87 -- ethnic movements 88 -- Europe -- 78 -- formalization of democracy, 72 -- European Common Market -- 8 -- 27 -- and globalization, 25.

European single currency 32.