Göran Therborn is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Cambridge. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages and include Inequalities of the World, Asia and Europe in Globalization, and Between Sex and Power.
The middle classes of the Global North are losing their privileged status in the face of automation, casualization, and downward social mobility. Socialists must find ways to mobilize these hard-pressed middle-class layers in a struggle against today’s financialized capitalism.
There is more to global capitalism than American empire.