From the Town Hall Seattle web site, "In a groundbreaking account, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, co-authors of The Making of Global Capitalism, offer a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism in a conversation moderated by Dan Jacoby of the University of Washington-Bothell. Transcending classical theories, Panitch and Gindin focus on the American state, arguing that its distinctiveness rests in its capacity to identify the interests of its own capital with that of capital in general—while also restructuring other states to the end of spreading capitalist social relations and preventing economic crises from interrupting capital’s globalizing tendencies. Presented as part of the Town Hall Center Civics series with Elliott Bay Book Company. Series supported by The Boeing Company, the RealNetworks Foundation, and the True/Brown Foundation."