Letter: Fighting Imperialism Needs Clear Politics Not Abstract Platitudes
Hilgers “Specificity of Anti-Imperialism” urges its readers to “make war on war.” Who could disagree? Furthermore, they claim we need to overcome the negative dialectic …
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Value Chains, Supply Chains and Economic Imperialism with Intan Suwandi
Rudy joins Intan Suwandi, author of Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism and co-author of Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism: Commodity Chains and Ecological-Epidemiological-Economic Crisis for …
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan: Origins to Collapse
Eric, Rob and Rudy join to discuss Afghanistan, focusing on its socialist period from 1979 to 1992. We discuss the history of the Afghan state …
Surge and Decline, Part 1: World Domination
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, begins his five-part series on US imperialists’ unsuccessful attempts to subjugate Afghanistan and secure their unrivaled position atop the …
The Farthest Promised Land: An Introduction to New Zealand’s Political Economy
Giacomo Bianchino and Rudy join Amal for an introductory discussion on New Zealand’s (Aotearoa in the Maori language) political economy, with a focus on how …
The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy”
Alexander Gallus takes a closer look at the developments leading up to this week’s dramatic events and offers some explanations for how we got to …
Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini
Below we present Jorge M’s English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialectics of Dependency, an important work in Latin American Marxism and overall theories of …
Letter: Notes on the Theory of Imperialism
It is a welcome sight to see a discussion about the theory of imperialism that is able to follow rigorous and academic research instead of …
Letter: Comments on John Smith’s interview
The interview conducted with John Smith touched on several important points with regards to understanding modern imperialism and its political implications. However, there were several …
Imperialism in the 21st Century with John Smith
Donald and Rudy join John Smith, author of Imperialism in the 21st Century: Globalization, Exploitation and Capitalism’s Final Crisis for a discussion on imperialism and …
COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Is the current legal definition of genocide useful for Marxists? Alyson Escalante unpacks the history behind the concept as it is currently understood and argues …
The Class Struggle in Afghanistan and its Future
In light of the Taliban’s consolidation of power in response to U.S. withdrawal from the region, Rob Ashlar predicts not the foreclosure of class struggle …
Invisible Empire: The Global Power of Finance with Tony Norfield
Rudy joins Tony Norfield, author of The City: London and the Global Power of Finance (Verso Books) for a broad theoretical practical discussion on the topic of …
Fianna Fáil: The Imperalist Party with an Anti-Imperialist Past
How did Fianna Fáil go from a party that opposed conciliatory treaties with British Imperialism to one that has sided with US imperialism? Sean Connolly …