Chapter 8: Class Struggle Unchained: Peter McLaren Interviewed by Curry Malott and Pierre Orelus

Before we define neoliberalism, it would be a good idea to understand how power is organized today. As William I. Robinson (2004) and others have revealed, power is produced within the capitalist class by transnationally oriented state-managers and a cadre of supranational institutions such as the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Trilateral Commission, and the World Economic Forum. Of course, there is still a struggle between descendant national fractions of dominant groups and ascendant transnational fractions. The class practices of a new global ruling class are becoming condensed in an emergent transnational state in which members of the transnational capitalist class have an objective existence above any local territories and polities.