# The Global Police State

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- Authors: [William I. Robinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-i-robinson)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2020-08-20
- Genres: Sociology

## Description

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through heavy-handed policing. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the nature and dynamics of this out-of-control system, arguing for the urgency of creating a movement capable of overthrowing it. The global police state uses a variety of ingenious methods of control, including mass incarceration, police violence, US-led wars, the persecution of immigrants and refugees, and the repression of environmental activists. Movements have emerged to combat the increasing militarization, surveillance and social cleansing; however many of them appeal to a moral sense of social justice rather than addressing its root - global capitalism. Using shocking data which reveals how far capitalism has become a system of repression, Robinson argues that the emerging megacities of the world are becoming the battlegrounds where the excluded and the oppressed face off against the global police state.

## Editions

### The Global Police State

- Publisher: Pluto Press
- ISBN: 978-07-4534-163-7
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2020-08-20
- Language: en_US