Power and Inequality

Levon Chorbajian is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior lecturer in the Republic of Armenia and the Soviet Union. His research interests center around political sociology and comparative genocide studies, with an emphasis on the Armenian Genocide. Key concepts for Chorbajian are class, power, and inequality. He has written, translated, and edited seven books including, The Caucasian Knot, Armenia in Crisis, The Making of Nagorno-Karabakh, Studies in Comparative Genocide and Power: A Critical Reader.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

That's What They Call Democracy: Capitalism, Democracy & the State

Section I. Critical Theories of Power

The Fetishism of Commodities

The New Forms of Control

Hegemony

The Body of the Condemned

Race and Culture

Women as the Subjects of Feminism

Section II. The State: Theory

The State as Superstructure

Defining the Class Dominance View

A Feminist Theory of the State

Racial Politics and the Racial State

Domhoff, Mills, and Slow Power

Section III. The State: Practice

The Politics of Income and Wealth Inequality

A Right to the City? Race, Class, and Neoliberalism in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Voter Suppression: The Attack on Rights

The Construction of Consent

Pacification and the Police: A Critique of the Police Militarization Thesis

Section IV. Media and Ideology

Manufacturing Consent

Still Manufacturing Consent

Yellow Ribbons and Spat-Upon Veterans: Making Soldiers the Means and Ends of War

News for All the People

The Future of Inequality: Polarization, Gridlock, and Global Warming

Section V. The Nation-State and the Global Economy

The Making of Global Capitalism

The Multipolar Moment

The New Imperialism

The Twin Towers as Metaphor

Section VI. War, Genocide, and Repression

War Making and State Making as Organized Crime 243

Getting Away with Murder (Almost): A Genocide Primer

The New Jim Crow

Section VII. Revolution and Social Movements

The Structuring of Protest

Revolution Against the Revolution

Wing Populism in America

Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber – Interview