He then shows how the rise of modern racism was paralleled by the emergence of new forms of patriarchy in the colonial era. McNally starts by excavating the roots of racism through a sweeping discussion of European expansion in Latin America, the capitalist nature of Anglo-American slavery, the racial oppression of the Irish, the need to 'divide and rule' the multi-ethnic working classes of the 'New World', and the need for a justification of slavery and imperialism. Like any phase of historical capitalism, capitalist globalisation is racialised and gendered. drawing on the original rise of capitalism, we could say that we are witnessing the 'new enclosures'' (p. Indeed, capitalist globalisation revolves around a reprise of the basic dynamic of primitive accumulation: 'globalisation is extending commodification farther than most people ever imagined. The global corporate agenda, McNally argues, is a contemporary mani-festation of the systemic drive towards commodification that has animated capitalism since it emerged, 'dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt' in the era of primitive accumulation. The extension and expansion of the power of capital is in turn much more than merely 'a set of policies pursued by those currently at the top'. Drawing on extensive empirical data, he shows that globalisation has very little to do with the freeing of trade and everything to do with the extension and expansion of the power of capital: 'At the end of a twenty-five year period in which foreign direct investment has grown massively, multinational capital now seeks a new legal regime where the rights of global property owners-international investors-take precedence over all others' (p. McNally kicks off his analysis of capitalist globalisation with a scathing commentary on 'the emperor's new clothes'. 25)-capitalist globalisation-and three chapters that survey trajectories of resistance worldwide and distil a political programme for anticapitalist practice. It does so via four chapters that put forth an analysis of 'the beast we seek to vanquish' (p. It is in this context, McNally argues, that popular movements are seeking to develop a new political model, and Another World is Possible seeks to contribute to this search. Ours is one of those moments in world history, argues David McNally in Another World is Possible, when the revolts of the downtrodden and dispossessed stand opposed to the 'repression, empire and war' unleashed by the powers-that-be in response to the nascent challenge from below. Another World is Possible: Globalisation and AntiCapitalismĪrbeiter Ring, 2006, 408 pp., revised expanded edition

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