A global police state – the military arm for capital interests – marginalises, controls and subjugates millions of people considered surplus humanity
The uprising sparked by the police murder in the US state of Minnesota of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, brought the global police state out in full force against hundreds of thousands of anti-racist protesters across the country. Fearful of losing control, the ruling groups left no holds barred in unleashing the state’s repressive apparatus against peaceful protesters who filled the streets in hundreds of cities, large and small, even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The new US brownshirts – a reference to the Nazi Party’s original paramilitary wing during the years leading up to the fascist takeover – are organised in the white nationalist militia, the Nazi and Klan groups, anti-immigrant organisation, the Boogaloos , the Patriot and anti-lockdown movements, among an expanding litany of far-right and Alt-Right groups.
As my book lays out, these twin dimensions of global police state come together in the so-called wars on drugs and terrorism, the undeclared wars on immigrants, refugees and gangs , the construction of border walls, immigrant detention centres, prison-industrial complexes, systems of mass surveillance and the spread of private security guard and mercenary companies.
Led by the United States as the predominant world power, military expansion in different countries has taken place through parallel, and often conflictive, processes, yet all show the same relationship between state militarisation and global capital accumulation. In 2015, for instance, the Chinese government announced that it was setting out to develop its own military-industrial complex modelled after the United States, in which private capital would assume the leading role.
The militarisation of cities, politics and culture in such countries as the United States and Israel, the spread of neo-fascist movements in North America, Europe and India, the rise of authoritarian regimes in Turkey, the Philippines and Honduras, are inseparable from these countries’ entanglement in webs of global wars and the militarised global accumulation, or global war economy.
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