These are notes from, and for, a series of discussions on imperialism organised by Redline. (See here for other details) As such, they are not a fully rounded analysis, just some guidance on points in these debates. ————— A key point […]
Value of Labour-Power, Wages, Productivity and Imperialism
The following chart gives a snapshot of the top 20 countries, ranked by their index of power in the world economy. Readers of this blog or my book, The City, will have seen this concept before,[1] but here the information
Es gibt zwar wichtige Parallelen zwischen dem nationalen Markt und dem Weltmarkt, aber jener ist nicht einfach eine Subkategorie des letzteren. Eine genauere Analyse des Weltmarkts, der stets in Verbindung mit den nationalen Ökonomien zu sehen ist, macht evident, dass
There is a lot of buzz about Trump’s recently launched trade wars, but much of this buzz misses the point. The key issue here is not foreign trade, but foreign investment. Foreign trade contributes relatively little to US corporate profit.
Trump’s Trade Wars Threaten US Foreign Investment
In response to the scenario outlined by General John Allen, in which the United State practices restraint by keeping (minimal) human decision-making in the OODA ‘loop’ and China does not, DMF asks an important question: “why wouldn’t China feel constrained”.
Hyperwar (#2: Further Thoughts)
Reclusion When the nomadic armies swept down from the north to conquer the splintering Western Jin dynasty, the upper classes fled across the Yellow River into the southern hinterland of their collapsing empire. In the South, they re-established the imperial
The Hermit and the Empire: China after the Collapse of the Developmental Regime
Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. … Settled agriculture, cities, nation-states, information technology, and every
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Introduction)
(Talk at the University of Amsterdam, June 2016) In every epoch, the attempt must be made to deliver tradition anew from the conformism which is on the point of overwhelming it. —Walter Benjamin The RAF’s history spans a period of
Historiography and Armed Struggle
Like every crisis, 2008’s surprised. Some of us failed to see how turmoil originating in finance, and apparently in a limited area of finance to do with the US housing market, could have such great impact on factories and offices
Crisis and Sequels: capitalism and the new economic turmoil since 2007
Rethinking Imperialism A Study of Capitalist Rule John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos For more than a century ‘imperialism’ has been a key concept in Left theory and politics, connoting both the aggressiveness and the overripe characteristics of modern capitalism,
Saudi Arabia has been a major player in Middle East politics. It backed the 2013 overthrow of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, since the example of an elected government of a major country next door was not welcome to the
