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Articles on Imperialism

The term comes out of the debate around 1900 – Hobson in 1902, Hilferding in 1910, Lenin in 1916 – and denotes not malice but the form in which competition between capitals becomes competition between states. Texts on world order, raw materials and war.

  • Essentials

    War on Terror: Perfect Pretext

    9/11 and the following “War on Terror” was the welcome pretext for an old US plan: to subject rivals to its own dictate after 1991.

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    The Party of God

    A history of Hezbollah: from regional resistance to a Bonapartist pillar of the system.

  • The war against Iran

    Iran is an ultra-reactionary class society. But that is irrelevant to the rejection of this imperialist plunder.

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    Cuba: Despite It All

    The history, conditions, mistakes and achievements of the Cuban revolution – from José Martí till todays “Opción Cero”.

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    Algerian Blood in the Seine

    In Algeria, France massacred hundreds of thousands; and in 1961, it carried that massacre back to Paris. France’s imperial boomerang.

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    The Iranian Revolution: Bitter fruit

    The imperialist overthrow of Mossadegh was the direct cause of the Iranian Revolution and of anti-Americanism in Iran.

  • Imperial Privilege Despite Minority Status

    Identity essentialism reduces imperialism to the abstract identity of the ‘marginalized.

  • Essentials

    On Socialism in China

    Despite having capitalist features, we see China in a socialist transitional phase – an overview of the history, theory, and practice of Chinese socialism

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Protectionism, currency imperialism, unipolarity – a look back at China’s rise, the fall of free trade, and the geopolitical tremors of a dying hegemon.

  • The Death of Hegemony

    With the development of information technology, domination is harder to present as inevitable.

  • The Myth of Rearmament

    Rearmament is not a consequence of the war in Ukraine, but is driven by the arms industry.

  • BRICS; an Opportunity, Not an End Goal.

    BRICS creates space for self-determination, but by itself, it is not yet a complete whole.

  • Sahel-Exit: The Sahel Confederation

    Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are forming a historic anti-imperialist confederation.

  • Class Brothers, Comrades-in-Arms

    NATO has a birthday. The doctrine of imperialism from the high horse still applies today as it did back then.

  • Postcolonial Colonial

    About the colonial assessment of Chinese influence in Africa and the hypocritical evaluation of African politics.

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