Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Passive Revolution

This paper attempts to apply, expand, reaffirm and modify the conceptual notion of “passive revolution ” as an explanatory tool for analyzing globalization and global capitalism in a new light. The expansion of capitalism as a political project is undertaking a radical restructuring of social relations. With the coercive rise of capital and the weakening of state and civil society, the neoliberal historical block has reshaped the terrain and parameters of social, economic and political relations both at the national but especially at the global level, which has unconstructive impact on the resilient capacities of capitalism. This paper purposes an examination on how the relations of domination and subordination are reproduced and how they are continuously undergoing transformations. Through studying the evolution of capitalist world order in a historical perspective and through exploring the new changes of relations brought about by the intensified globalization process since the 1990s, it intends to offer a framework of dialectical understanding of the impact of globalization through applying Gramscian and Polanyian theoretical and analytical approaches so as to argue that globalization is also producing the opposite function of de-legitimizing capitalism’s hegemony and especially its passive revolution capacities