The global society - by Octavio Ianni

As Octavio Ianni conceptualizes in this book, two chronological and political milestones delimit the accelerated transformations now underway in world society: the beginning of the so-called Cold War (1946) and the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). Closely followed by the media, the wide coverage of these events exerted a kind of feedback that deepened internal contradictions in the two blocs and led to even bolder levels of renewal and modernization, which today extend across all quadrants. The Cold War was ended from the bottom up: on the other hand, the rupture of the socialist bloc took place from the inside out. In appearance, capitalism was the big winner on the international political scene, but it also suffers from a process of divergence and internal and external contradictions (between the United States and the European Community, as well as between them and João, for example) that makes its structure unstable. Everything points to a globalization of the economy, an equalization of conflicting interests, but the process of rearranging national socio-economic layers and the search for international agreements will still generate various earthquakes, as the end of a cycle of social struggles immediately begins other. What once occurred at the heart of capitalist society will become a class struggle on a global level, which will be accompanied and accelerated by the media, because, contrary to what certain observers think, one of the effects of the telecommunication technological revolution is the development of consciousness criticism, as demonstrated by the repudiation of the Vietnam War by the American people themselves, as well as the downfall of Russian anti-reformists in August 1991.