Rainer Shea This article is part two in a series on American collapse and the potential for a U.S. civil war. Read part one for a detailed explanation of the ideas I’ll mention here about the U.S. empire’s internal cognitive warfare. The imperialists are the architects of their own demise. Through reacting to the decline of U.S….
Category: NEO-LIBERALISM
As Class Conflict Intensifies, Imperial Decline Pushes Capitalism into a Corner
Rainer Shea During late-stage capitalism—the era where capitalism has stopped being a revolutionary force and started being reactionary—the bourgeoisie function within a perpetually contracting range of options. During the mid-19th century, when the bourgeoisie were fresh off from defeating the feudal ruling class, their system was vibrant and continuing to grow. But no sooner had…
Perpetual War is Capitalism’s Hope for Surviving the 21st Century
Rainer Shea The ideology behind capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism is based around the idea that competition, rather than cooperation, is the natural state of humanity. That the species is destined to eternally be at odds with itself, both on an individual and civilizational level. This was the claim put forth by a faction of academic…
Neoliberal Globalization in Crisis
Alvaro García Linera International Course “State, Politics and Democracy in Latin America”. We are living through the unforeseen combination of four mutually reinforcing crises: a medical crisis, economic crisis, environmental crisis, and political crisis. A situation of enormous perplexity and anguish. It seems that society and the world have lost their way, direction, their destiny….
On Vargas Llosa and Putrid Liberalism
Alvaro Garcia Linera “Neoliberalism is degenerating into a complex neo-fascism,” writes Alvaro Garcia Linera. All things age: living organisms, people, and ideas. It is the tough reality of the second law of thermodynamics. But there are dignified ways to do it, staying true to the principles at which the zenith of one’s existence was reached,…
India in the Face of Neoliberalism, Pandemic as Part of the Tragedy
Misión Verdad India’s structural conflict is a product of inequality as a continuation of colonization and a caste system that prevails in its society (Photo: PTI). In times of global pandemic, the neoliberal drift, a continuation of a colonial system, continues to test emerging countries that will have to confront their internal contradictions in order…
Black Alliance for Peace: Fascism Was Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate and current national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace – a member of the Black is Back Coalition — says Europe must be “de-centered” from discussions of fascism. African people need to “reject the assumption that fascism was something new and unique to Europe in…
45 Years After the Genocidal Coup in Argentina
Revista Crisis Argentinians rallying for their missing sons and daughters in Buenos Aires, circa 1980. A seven-year night On March 24, 1976 the sixth coup d’état to the bourgeois-democratic constitutional order of its history as a republic took place in Argentina. The Armed Forces were the visible face of it, leading the self-styled “National Reorganization…
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Neoliberalism Will Die in Chile.
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, The Tenth Newsletter (2021) Daniel Jadue speaks to Vijay Prashad. Daniel Jadue is the mayor of Recoleta, a commune that is part of the expanding city of Santiago, Chile. His office is on the sixth floor of a municipal building in whose lower reaches one can find a pharmacy, an…
Dictatorship & Mass Extermination Are the Endgames of Neoliberalism
Rainer Shea The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will…
The Crisis and the Venezuelan Working Class: A Conversation with Pedro Eusse
Cira Pascual Marquina Pedro Eusse joined the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) in 1979 when he was just 17 and working in a chicken factory. Now, Eusse is a member of the party’s political bureau and charged with coordinating worker and trade union issues. Eusse is also the General Coordinator of the Cruz Villegas Class-conscious…
Omali Yeshitela: “Fascism”Is Invoked When Bad Things Happen to White People
The question of fascism emerges “when one sector of the ruling class introduces measures that bear some resemblance to the colonial condition that Africans and other oppressed peoples live with all the time,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Yeshitela cautioned against “uniting with one…
How Western NGOs and Charities Are Perpetuating Poverty in Africa
Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza In these contemporary times, Africa is still a charity case for Western superpowers and their aid industry, while turning a blind eye to the root, structural causes of poverty. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other Western charities have largely filled the vacuum left in service delivery in most African countries. NGOs play a…
Is Democracy an End or an Instrument?
Emir Sader The strategy of the left of the 21st century combines the democratic struggle of the masses with the radical democratization of the State and of all social, economic, political and cultural structures. For a long time, the left was accused of privileging the conquest of better living conditions for the population, rather than…
An Indigenous Voice Against Neoliberalism, Imperialism & Fascism: A Review of ‘Volveremos y Seremos Millones’ by Evo Morales
Martín Delgado At the end of 2020, the new book by the historic leftist Indigenous leader and former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, went on sale in several South American countries. It was written during his exile in Buenos Aires, where the ousted president reflected on the context and process of the coup in…
Viral Topography of Neoliberalism: Transnational Laboratories and the Commodification of Life
Jorge Elbaum Image: “Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”: Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines | Human Rights Watch After a year of pandemic and more than two million deaths, the prevailing global political model and the transnational laboratories exhibit their evident inability to produce and distribute vaccines that could prevent the…
Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics
Gabriel Rockhill My article in The Philosophical Salon, “Foucault: The Faux Radical,” has been praised in certain circles for its political clarity, while in others it has generated some heated debate, as well as requests for further clarifications.[i] Its translation into Turkish sparked an exchange with Can Uğur, which synthesizes a number of the concerns…
Chile Will Experience an Intense 2021
Paul Walder The Chilean model went off the rails in October 2019 and has since begun its process of deterioration. The first and fierce blow dealt by the popular revolt was followed in a course of continuity by the pandemic and the productive and commercial shutdown, with disastrous effects on the economy and its neoliberal…
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