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Political Power and Social Theory

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Political Power and Social Theory Volume 39

Trump and the Deeper Crisis

Edited By

Kevin A. Young

University of Massachusetts, USA

Michael Schwartz

Stony Brook University, USA

And

Richard Lachmann

University at Albany, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

While preparing this volume we lost our friend, colleague, and coeditor Richard Lachmann, who died unexpectedly as the chapters were arriving. He had just completed the first draft of his own chapter, which appears here in revised and updated form. In this project as always, Richard was insightful, meticulous, generous, and guided by a strong moral compass. His death is an immense loss to his friends and family, to the field of sociology, and to the fight for a humane world. The volume is dedicated to him.

About the Editors

Kevin A. Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (2017), editor of Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (2019), and coauthor of Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (2020) (with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz).

Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University. His research areas include Political Economy, Social Movements, Social Network Analysis, Racism and Racification, Globalization and War, and Critical Pedagogy. He is the author of 10 books and hundreds of articles, book chapters, and commentaries, including, most recently, Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete (with Joshua Murray) and Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (with Kevin Young and Tarun Banerjee). He is one of seven editors of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Richard Lachmann was Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany-SUNY. He authored or edited many books, including Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (2000), States and Power (2010), What Is Historical Sociology? (2013), and First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (2020). He died unexpectedly in September 2021.

About the Contributors

Justin Akers Chacón is an educator, activist, and author in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. His recent works include No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border (with Mike Davis, Haymarket, 2nd edition, 2018), Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket, 2018), and The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border (Haymarket, 2021).

Colin Gordon is the F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and the author of Citizen Brown (2019), Mapping Decline (2008), Dead on Arrival (2003), and New Deals (1994).

Richard Lachmann was Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany-SUNY. He authored or edited many books, including Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (2000), States and Power (2010), What Is Historical Sociology? (2013), and First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (2020). He died unexpectedly in September 2021.

Malik Miah has been involved in radical politics since the late 1960s. He was an organizer of antiracist and antiwar actions, and later a trade union militant in the steel and airline industries. After retirement from United Airlines in San Francisco, he writes articles about race and class, the labor movement, and US politics for domestic and international publications.

Joshua Murray is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author (with Michael Schwartz) of Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete. His research focuses on corporate elites and class conflict and can be found in venues such as the American Journal of Sociology.

Corey R. Payne is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the dynamics of historical capitalism, social conflict, and war-making.

Michael Schwartz is Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University. His research areas include political economy, social movements, social network analysis, racism and racification, globalization and war, and critical pedagogy. He is the author of 10 books and hundreds of articles, book chapters, and commentaries, including, most recently, Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete (with Joshua Murray) and Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (with Kevin Young and Tarun Banerjee). He is one of seven editors of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Beverly J. Silver, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on problems of development, labor, social conflict, and war, using comparative and world-historical methods of analysis.

Kevin A. Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (2017), editor of Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left (2019), and coauthor of Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It (2020) (with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz).

Grace Yukich (PhD, New York University) is Professor of Sociology at Quinnipiac University. She is the author of One Family Under God: Immigration Politics and Progressive Religion in America (Oxford) and coeditor of Religion Is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century (NYU).