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IIRE Ecosocialist School | IIRE Ecosocialist School | ||
24 November 2019 | 24 November 2019 | ||
Peter Drucker | Peter Drucker | ||
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Introduction to report and reporter | Introduction to report and reporter | ||
I. Imperialism: Lenin’s and Trotsky’s theories | I. Imperialism: Lenin’s and Trotsky’s theories | ||
Marx & Engels | Marx & Engels | ||
Basics of Lenin’s theory | Basics of Lenin’s theory | ||
Imperialism in the 20th century | Imperialism in the 20th century | ||
Our anti-imperialism: permanent revolution | Our anti-imperialism: permanent revolution | ||
II. Neoliberal globalization and the ‘war on terror’ | II. Neoliberal globalization and the ‘war on terror’ | ||
Imperialism today | Imperialism today | ||
Accumulation by dispossession | Accumulation by dispossession | ||
Armed globalization and the ‘clash of barbarisms’ | Armed globalization and the ‘clash of barbarisms’ | ||
Neoliberalism’s apogee: hyperglobalization | Neoliberalism’s apogee: hyperglobalization | ||
The clash of barbarisms | The clash of barbarisms | ||
III. New imperialist powers? | III. New imperialist powers? | ||
Trotsky’s theory & the BRICS bubble | Trotsky’s theory & the BRICS bubble | ||
China | China | ||
Russia | Russia | ||
IV. Imperialism in crisis | IV. Imperialism in crisis | ||
The challenge from China: trade wars and sea lanes | The challenge from China: trade wars and sea lanes | ||
Brexit, Trump and the new far right | Brexit, Trump and the new far right | ||
Crisis in the Middle East | Crisis in the Middle East | ||
V. Rebuilding peace movements? | V. Rebuilding peace movements? | ||
Questions for discussion: | Questions for discussion: |
Latest revision as of 13:56, 19 November 2019
Imperialism, crisis and geopolitical chaos today
IIRE Ecosocialist School
24 November 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?
Trotsky’s theory & the BRICS bubble
China
Russia
IV. Imperialism in crisis
The challenge from China: trade wars and sea lanes
Brexit, Trump and the new far right
Crisis in the Middle East
V. Rebuilding peace movements?
Questions for discussion:
1. What role does US imperialism play in your country? European imperialism? Chinese imperialism? 2. Is there/has there been a significant peace movement in your country? With what focus? 3. What is the best hope today for rebuilding mass peace movements with strong anti-imperialist left wings?
- 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