Tag: Imperialism
On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story
Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism’s, and in particular Vivek Chibber’s, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.
The US Kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro
Geo Maher traces the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro to a long history of US imperial intervention, sanctions warfare, and the ongoing attempt to destroy Venezuela’s communal revolution.
Exporting Genocide
susie day interviews Basil Farraj on Israel’s carceral logics.
In the Belly of the Beast
Aaron Boehmer reflects on the aesthetics of war and empire in relation to Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan.
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future
Cihan Tuğal looks at the interplay between HTS’s movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics to analyze the prospects for Syria’s future.
The UAE’s Subimperialism in Sudan
Husam Mahjoub analyzes the role of counterrevolutionary subimperial agents—in this case, the UAE—and their imperialist enablers in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
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 itself 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?