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The election of Donald Trump in the United States similarly demonstrates the need to take decisive action to make the global economy more inclusive, or risk seeing more political and economic upheavals that will further hinder growth.
If so, then Hollywood’s cartoon-like caricatures of evil multinational corporations may some day seize mainstream consciousness, leading to political upheavals that shatter today’s social contract.
It is now time for actions that adequately respond to the upheavals created by all these votes.
Not a single day passed without requiring continuous and concerted attention to economic crises, political and military conflicts, social upheavals, cultural clashes, or environmental problems in some corner of the world.
There are differences, of course, but the upheavals’ sweeping and contagious nature is strongly similar to that of the revolutions that brought communism to an end in Europe.
In my book Capitalism 4.0, I argued that comparable political upheavals would follow the fourth systemic breakdown of global capitalism heralded by the 2008 crisis.
After this year’s political upheavals, the fatal contradiction between social benefits and individual losses can no longer be ignored.
Yet this year’s political upheavals have been driven by elderly voters, while young voters mostly supported the status quo.
But the radical policy upheavals predicted by analysts will prove to be small tremors.
What has emerged since the social upheavals of the 1960’s and the financial “Big Bangs” of the 1980’s is a new type of liberalism that not only lacks a clear moral basis, but also regards most government restraints as attacks on individual freedom.
In the postcommunist social revolution (less often noticed than the political and economic upheavals) families and communities were undermined and (at least in Poland) the Church was too involved in politics to help.
Similarly, Keynes watched in horror as economic policymakers blundered repeatedly in the years following WWI, through the upheavals of the 1920s, and into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Recent upheavals in many member states’ party systems have altered the electoral calculus, and the pro-Europeans must adapt accordingly.
Making matters worse, the geopolitical environment has changed fundamentally in the decade since the ESS was ratified, owing to economic rebalancing toward Asia, the upheavals in the Arab world, the revival of Russian assertiveness, and the rise of isolationist tendencies in the US.
In the twentieth century, Russia set an unquestionable record for all sorts of upheavals and social experiments that attracted the world’s attention.
The resulting upheavals in the structure of the workforce can be at least as important as the actual number of jobs that are affected.
And might those macroeconomic factors explain some of the political upheavals in Western democracies such as the UK and the US in recent years?
That conceptual framework is demonstrably ill equipped to deal with social and political upheavals, which can hardly be described as marginal changes.
Political upheavals of some kind were to be expected after the 2008 economic crisis, as I have argued for years.
But there was nothing inevitable about the specific upheavals that happened.
In 2008, when severe weather cut into the world’s grain supply and drove up food prices, countries ranging from Morocco to Indonesia experienced social and political upheavals.
Indeed, arguably they have been factors behind the political upheavals in the US and the UK already.
The Arab Spring upheavals have given rise to grave new challenges to cultural and religious diversity in the Middle East.
When Obama discussed the Arab political upheavals, he noted the importance of economic development.
But, almost six months into the North African upheavals, the number of arrivals on the southern island of Lampedusa has reached roughly 30,000.
That said, there is no question that the upheavals in both countries – and elsewhere in the Arab world – largely reflect their governments’ failure to share the wealth.
Consequently, although the current crisis is expected to have a relatively minor effect compared to past upheavals, the possibility of contagion from turbulence in the US cannot be disregarded.
And it is a region now experiencing what could prove to be historic domestic political upheavals.
It is also long overdue, as evidenced by last year’s political upheavals, including the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte’s victories in the United States and the Philippines, respectively, and falling support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress.
But these periodic upheavals have also created new, more modern jobs – and often in greater numbers than those that were lost.
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