First published at LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal In his interview “Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative,” Ilya Matveev
Tag: imperialism
Boris Kagarlitsky: China and Russia in the modern world-system — A dual challenge
This is one of those unique cases when I republish someone else’s article. But I feel compelled to do so. The article is written by my co-author Boris Kagarlitsky, currently serving a 5-year
The struggle for global hegemony (Re-reading Giovanni Arrighi)
Two-logic framework As Branko Milanovic has recently remarked, there are some famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read.
Reinvigorating Marx: A Critical Exploration of Value Theory in 21st-Century Capitalism
MARX’S VALUE THEORY IN A NEW ERA Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Ma
Foreign Direct Investment: The Opium for Development
A Marxist Take on Investment Hopes Last week I presented our research (with Boris Kagarlitsky) at the annual meeting of the Armenian Economic Association in Yerevan. The research takes the Marxist
The uneasy balance of Western colonialism in Africa (Walter Rodney vs. Paul Bairoch)
This is not a real review; rather this is a homage to two great, but very different books, written 20 years apart: Walter Rodney’s How West Underdeveloped Africa published in 1972 and Paul Bairoc