The Arab revolts of the past year represent an important shift politically (and not only for the Arab world) that is important to seek to understand. The following essay, reprinted from a recent issue of New Left Review, is valuable not only for a beginning analysis but for its historical sketch of the development of the “gearbox of [...]
Posts under ‘Imperialist strategy’
Offshore
A topic we’ve been pursuing on this site is the transnationalization of capital, one of the prerequisites of which is the unrestricted flow of money (money-capital) around the globe. Historically part of what has facilitated this flow has been (and continues to be) the existence of unregulated places — “offshore.” Runciman in his review links [...]
Transnational capital and the current crisis
We’ve had a continuing interest on this site in questions raised by the transnationalization of capital, and particularly that of a transnational capitalist class (TCC), and we’ve reproduced pieces by some of the chief academic exponents and investigators of the TCC thesis, including Leslie Sklair, William K. Carroll, Jerry Harris, and William Robinson. In the [...]
Austerity, butterflies, and the future
A prime preoccupation on this site has been the investigation, discussion, and movement toward theorization of the contemporary configuration of capitalism, its economic, political and ideological aspects. In the following essay Don explores the consequences for bourgeois forms of rule, of the transnational constitution of present-day capital and its movement toward an increasingly decentered global [...]
Financialisation, empire, crisis: how to get out?
The following interview is with the three authors of In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives, a recently published short book on the economic crisis by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch. The book has its virtues and its vices, almost evenly divided between its analysis and its prescription. [...]
Where America meets central Asia, China, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and (oh, yes) Pakistan
This analytic essay is not precisely theoretical, but it bears on some of our discussions concerning imperialist strategy and the ways in which the contemporary world is shaping up (or being shaped). Don Hamerquist drew attention to the article in connection with his essay published here. Kiren Aziz Chaudhry is Professor of Political Science at [...]
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