globalization
Wanted: a Mass Uprising Against the Neoliberal Matrix
by Walden Bello
June 14, 2024
A few months before the coronavirus shut down the world, Chile exploded against neoliberalism. A World Bank economist, Sebastian Edwards,...
От распада СССР до возникновения многополярного мира. И что теперь?
Димитрис Константакопулос
04.07.2024
История ставит перед народами и государствами Востока и Юга задачу противостоять гегемонистским аппетитам Запада с помощью новой, более эгалитарной и кооперативной модели и...
From the Fall of USSR to the Rise of a Multipolar...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
The fall of the USSR in 1989-91 provoked a sense of omnipotence in the dominant circles of Western capitalism, all the more...
Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...
Strategies of Denial
By Grey Anderson
15 June 2023
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy. Discussion has focused on...
The New Imperialist Structure
by Samir Amin
Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...
US Merges its Economics and Foreign Policy
By Anuradha Chenoy*
Major shifts in the US economic and industrial strategy have been announced in a speech by the US National Security Advisor Jake...
Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
By Sam Gindin*
November 22, 2022
Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century....
Domination vs Aspiration? – Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Sep 25, 2022
World War Three, the favorite topic of political analysts over the last few months, has moved from the realm of speculation to...