2. Imperialism and geopolitical disorder
Outline:
Introduction to report and reporter
I. 20th-century imperialism
Basics of Lenin’s theory
Cold War imperialism and wars of national liberation
Consumerist imperialism: oil and cars II. Neoliberal globalization and the ‘war on terror’
Imperialism and global inequality: Claudio Katz’s theses
Supply chains: from national to global
Accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey)
Armed globalization and the ‘clash of barbarisms’
III. Neoliberalism’s apogee: hyperglobalization
NAFTA (1993), Maastricht (1992), WTO (1995)
China’s rise, phase I: Foxcomm and Walmart – the role of Hong Kong
Latin America’s Pink Tide (and extractivism): challenge and crisis IV. Imperialism in crisis (from 2008)
China’s rise, phase II: trade wars, sea lanes, One Belt One Road – and Hong Kong
Crises in the Middle East
Clashes with Russia
Brexit, Trump and the new far right
A Latin American Trump: Bolsonaro (and his divided opposition)
Covid-19: nail in the coffin of hyperglobalization
V. What’s next?
What next for imperialism? Post-Trump Trumpism? And China? And the EU?
What next for resistance?: difficulties of the anti-imperialist left
- 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