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Latin America: beyond the ‘Pink Tide’ | Latin America: beyond the ‘Pink Tide’ | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:15, 5 August 2019
Imperialism, crisis and geopolitical chaos today
IIRE Youth School
18 August 2019
Peter Drucker
Introduction to report and reporter
I. Imperialism: Lenin’s and Trotsky’s theories
Marx & Engels
Basics of Lenin’s theory
Imperialism in the 20th century
Our anti-imperialism: permanent revolution
II. Neoliberal globalization and the ‘war on terror’
Imperialism today
Accumulation by dispossession
Armed globalization and the ‘clash of barbarisms’
Neoliberalism’s apogee: hyperglobalization
The clash of barbarisms
III. New imperialist powers?
China
Russia
… and the others
IV. Imperialism in crisis
The challenge from China: trade wars and sea lanes
Clashes with Russia
Brexit, Trump and the new far right
Crisis in the Middle East
V. Anti-imperialism real and fake
The Arab region: the ghost of Nasserism and the uprisings
Latin America: beyond the ‘Pink Tide’
Questions for discussion:
1. What challenges does the rise of the new far right pose for the left?
2. How should we respond to Trump’s conflicts with the EU, Russia, China?
3. What is the best hope for anti-imperialism today?
- V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, (Excerpts), 1917
- Claudio Katz, "Imperialism in 21st Century", (Excerpts) 2002
- Fourth International [http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5447 Capitalist globalization, imperialisms, geopolitical chaos and their implications, excerpts: part I, II, IV