Taught Lenin on imperialism this morning and was struck again by the total disconnect between Lenin's analysis and that of so many contemporary anti-imperialists.
For Lenin, an imperialist world order is necessarily multipolar. He mocks Kautsky for thinking that there could be a...
For Lenin, an imperialist world order is necessarily multipolar. He mocks Kautsky for thinking that there could be a...
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Trying to decide if I'm passive, clueless, or both.
Today's anti-imperialists, though, tend to embrace multipolarity as the immediate goal of anti-imperial politics, taking for granted, it seems, that Kautsky's idea of hyperimperialism was realized by the...
I don't mean that in the post-trump Liberal “everything I don't like is a Russian bot” sense, but more lines of influence I’ve observed over the past 25 years.
Folks making connections.
Possible that it's totally disconnected from the theorygram return of Kautskian Hyperimperialist thinking.
But the Putin/Dugin position is hardly anti-imperialist: they just want to carve out space for their empire too.
Thinking about this as a gear up for a unit of int'l PE that discusses the IMF. Students want a focus of blame.