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Can Global Capitalism Endure?

Book • 2022
Can Global Capitalism Endure explores the deepening contradictions of world capitalism—falling profit rates, overaccumulation, social reproduction crises, ecological limits—and assesses their implications for the system's durability.

Robinson synthesizes Marxist political economy, world-systems analysis, and contemporary case studies to argue that capitalism faces severe structural constraints.

The book evaluates capitalism's strategies—globalization, financialization, privatization, and militarization—to prolong accumulation and how these tactics generate new instabilities.

Robinson also discusses prospects for resistance and alternative democratic-socialist visions.

The work situates current conflicts and environmental emergencies within a broader epochal crisis dynamic.

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Elliot Dolan-Evans
as a recent related work by the guest examining the durability of global capitalism.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Elliot Dolan-Evans
as one of the guest's recent books examining the longevity of global capitalism.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Elliot Dolan-Evans
as one of the guest's recent books addressing the durability of global capitalism.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Elliot Dolan-Evans
as one of the guest's recent works addressing the viability of global capitalism.
William I. Robinson, "Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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