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What is Imperialism? Part 2 of 2
🕑 Added 2021-06-21 17:50:57 +0000 UTCIn part 2 of a 2 part episode, we review Greg Albo's article "The Old and New Economics of Imperialism" to assess the strength of Poulantza's versus Lenin's theory of imperialism. We talk about signs of American decay and China's rise as the next leading imperialist power.
Albo's article here [this is a link to the PDF]: https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/download/5812/2708/
Comments
William Mckay
Blame Greece, that’s where poulantzas is from
Cosmo
So we blame Canada for jacobin, gottcha!
William Mckay
Indeed! They explain it away with notions of mutual consent and ideological takeover.
David Green
I learned a lot from reading the Panitch Gindin magnum opus, but I remember wondering why they didn't seem to bother to explain why if US finance was in such firm and consensual control of global capitalism, they (we) needed to use so much violence to maintain it.
