Tag: Imperialism
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People’s Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.
A Tale of Two Ports
Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.
Nationalism and Capitalism’s Ever-Spiraling Crisis
Through the lens of nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Wolfgang Streeck and Jamie Merchant’s respective responses to capitalist crisis. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
The Antisemitism of Zionism
Shane Burley argues that Zionism has a long history of entrenching antisemitism and serves as a reactionary, radical sectionalist mode of politics that spells disaster for both Jews and humanity more broadly.
An Unending Genocide
Spectre’s Shireen Akram-Boshar speaks with Toufic Haddad about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
“Viva, Viva, Palestina!”
In this photographic essay, journalist Ari Golub depicts the energy, solidarity, and steadfast resolve among protesters at the George Washington University campus, where young people from across the DC area have convened as part of a nationwide movement of student encampment protests calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and university divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians.
The Middle East on a Knife-Edge
Joseph Daher analyzes the Israeli-Iranian conflict in the context of US imperialism and the assault on Gaza. What should the left’s priorities be?
Prelude to a New Imperial Order?
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber challenge the received view of US global dominance with a dialectical conception of our multipolar geopolitical order.
“Bidenomics” in the International Context
This is the first in a series of articles providing a snapshot of the geopolitical moment from a Marxist perspective. Thomas Hummel analyzes the shift toward escalating conflict between the U.S. and China, and examines the possible outcomes in terms of the global balance of power, the possibilities or difficulties for working class organizing, and the chances of inter-imperialist war. Over the course of the series, Hummel will examine whether this shift is likely to be the basis of a new regime of accumulation or a short blip on the radar—that is, an attempt to engineer something for which there is no material basis in reality.
On the Anti-Racist Revolt in France
Ibrahim Bechrouri analyzes 2023’s summer of anti-racist protest in France, its place in a series of Black, Brown, poor, and working class rebellions, and the French state’s violent repression of the revolt.