Contents: Preface Introduction: the global capitalist crisis and its aftermath on a world scale, Berch Berberoglu The contours of the Marxist debate on the global capitalist crisis, David Thurston Martin The global capitalist crisis: its origins, dynamics and impact on the United States, Berch Berberoglu 'The Great Recession' of 2008 and the continuing global capitalist crisis, William I. Robinson The global financial crisis: a crisis of capital or for labor?, James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer The global capitalist crisis and the 2008 financial meltdown in the United States, Levin Welch The impact of the global capitalist crisis on the Eurozone, David L. Elliott Japan's long stagnation and the global capitalist crisis: the onset of inter-state rivalry?, Bill Lucarelli The continuing global capitalist crisis and the transition to state-neoliberalism in China, Alvin Y. So Russia and the global capitalist crisis, David M. Kotz Latin America and the epochal crisis of capitalism, Luis Arizmendi and Gordon Welty 'Africa rising' or Africans uprising? The impact of the global capitalist crisis on Africa, Patrick Bond The structural crisis of global capitalism and the prospects for world revolution in the twenty-first century, Chris Chase-Dunn and Anthony Roberts The global capitalist crisis and the end of empire, Martin Orr Conclusion: the global capitalist crisis and class struggle, Berch Berberoglu Select bibliography Index.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewCitizen Employers: Business Communities and Labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870‐1916. By Jeffrey Haydu. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2008. Pp. 268. $39.95 (cloth).Berch BerberogluBerch BerberogluUniversity of Nevada, Reno Search for more articles by this author University of Nevada, RenoPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 115, Number 5March 2010 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/652926 Views: 10Total views on this site © 2010 by the University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Religion and religious movements have played a prominent role in society and social transformations throughout the course of human history. This has especially been the case in the closing decades of the twentieth century, when Islamic fundamentalism, prompted by the Iranian Revolution of 1979, spread throughout the Middle East and beyond, affecting political developments in the region that changed the balance of social forces in a profound way. My interest in studying the class nature of religion and religious movements goes back quarter of a century when I undertook the study of the role of the Islamic clergy and its relationship to the landowning class and the peasantry in Ottoman Turkey as part of my doctoral dissertation research which was later published as my first book Turkey ill Crisis in the early 1980s. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 attracted my attention for the very same reasons, a coalition of forces led by the landlords, merchants, and the clergy overthrew the Shah's regime and installed in its place theocratic rule of the imams and the mullahs. This group then consolidated their hold of state power in favor of the traditional elites during the first two years immediately following the revolution to advance the interests of their traditional allies the landlords and the merchants under the veil of Islam as a legitimizing ideology. This paper evolved from years of study and analysis of the intricate relationship between religion and class forces in Iran before and after the Revolution to make sense of the post-revolutionary policies of the Islamic state that has managed to remain in power for nearly quarter of a century.

Cet article examine les relations entre l'expansion capitaliste internationale, le declin des economies nationales et l'essor des mouvements ultranationalistes de droite a travers le monde. Les recents developpements en Europe de l'Est et dans le Tiers-Monde permettent de comprendre des changements similaires en train de s'operer aux Etats-Unis et dans d'autres pays capitalistes avances. En observant les conditions sociales, economiques et politiques de l'emergence des fascismes et des nationalismes au cours du siecle, l'A. est en mesure d'avancer une explication de ces phenomenes en termes de classe.