Wednesday, 22 January , 2025

globalization

The Rise of the Far Right and the Age of Great...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Why Trump had and still has, to some extent, the need to present himself as an "antisystemic" friend of peace and even...

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....