Scipes, Kim. 2022. “The Only Commonality is Uncommonality.” Class, Race and Corporate Power 10(1). https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol10/iss1/4/
Abstract
Noting the extensive number of progressive protests, mobilizations, and social disruption from below since the mid-1980s, not just in the US but around the world, this article suggests that what is going on is the expansion of the global economic and social justice movement, a bottom-up form of globalization. It suggests that this is, ultimately, a rejection of industrial civilization itself. And it points out, through an examination of the effects of climate change, that the continued existence of industrial civilization is imposing a burden on the peoples of the world that far outweighs its benefits, and suggests that protests will expand as more and more people understand the costs of industrial civilization.
