globalization
Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...
Strategies of Denial
By Grey Anderson
15 June 2023
There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy. Discussion has focused on...
The New Imperialist Structure
by Samir Amin
Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...
US Merges its Economics and Foreign Policy
By Anuradha Chenoy*
Major shifts in the US economic and industrial strategy have been announced in a speech by the US National Security Advisor Jake...
Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
By Sam Gindin*
November 22, 2022
Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century....
Domination vs Aspiration? – Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Sep 25, 2022
World War Three, the favorite topic of political analysts over the last few months, has moved from the realm of speculation to...
The world and Russia, Russia and the world – The rise...
Second of two articles. Read Part I here
Second part of the text based on the speech of the author to a debate held in...
Russia-Ukraine War: No Winners and Many Losers as the Balance of...
The West presents this confrontation as one between ‘democracy versus autocracy’, many countries, especially from the Global South, are neutral and do not fit...
Who armed Ukraine and decided to expand NATO? Prof John Mearsheimer
Apr. 8, 2022
Professor John Mearsheimer, Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of...