The New Age of Catastrophe
The New Age of Catastrophe The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. The…
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The New Age of Catastrophe
The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. The exceptional is becoming normal.
It embraces the increasing destruction of nature and the degradation of labour, a world economy stagnant since the global financial crisis, and escalating inter-imperialist conflicts between the United States, China, and Russia.So far, the main political Now humankind faces fresh existential threats - the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events caused by accelerating climate change, and the danger of nuclear war in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.These threats, argues Alex Callinicos, have their common source in a multidimensional crisis of the capitalist system, which is hitting the buffers, hurling us towards societal collapse.