Confronting Hegemony as a Form of Social Domination

Abstract

At this point, I want to make two observations. First, throughout this book, I will argue that these three other categories of transnational classes, identified by Sassen, will be crucial for building a counter hegemonic alliance to both the American Hegemon and the emerging hegemony of a predatory capitalist Transnationalist Capitalist Class. Second, I will assert that these other three classes—apart from the class of TCC professionals and executives—will eventually develop the capacity to reconstitute their efforts around a counter hegemonic alliance and through their ideological reliance upon the power of a shared progressive agenda. In this manner, they will become increasingly empowered to make themselves into a global constituency—across global civil society—as a political, economic, ideological, and spiritual force for change in the direction of realizing egalitarian values, distributive justice, and the cause of human rights beyond the borders of nation-states. As such, by reliance on such a progressive and cooperative agenda, it will be within their power to assert democratic rights and claims within an emerging multicentric world of regions. These three global classes will continue to be linked together by their common economic, political, and ideological interests, while simultaneously demonstrating a new capability for exercising their counter hegemonic power against the United States and its TCC allies, thereby making possible a new historical reality, which begins with being decoupled from predatory capitalists and capitalisms.