Leer texto completo [PDF]Imperialism is a mechanism of domination with changing historical modalities. The territorial, commercial and intermediate variants preceded the capitalist imperative of profit. This difference is diluted in the model of hegemonic successions.
Classical imperialism was characterized more by war than by economic transformations. The later model led by the United States has sought to stifle revolutions and prevent socialism. The current North American impotence contrasts with the flexibility of its British predecessor.
Mutations in contemporary capitalism have no equivalent imperial correlates. Neoliberalism disrupted the functioning of the system, but imperialism continues without a compass. The defining features will be determined in the clash with the Asian rival and popular resistance.

The United States seeks to regain its sagging world dominance by capturing wealth,
quelling rebellions, and deterring competitors. It supports this operation with gigantic
military power and a burdensome arms economy.
Hybrid wars have radically transformed imperial interventionism. They have added the
chaotic scene of refugees and civilian victims generated by the demolition of several
states.
The breakdown of internal cohesion is the main obstacle to the US imperial revival.
Trump’s economic and geopolitical failures confirmed those limitations. This impotence
did not reverse rearmament with new atomic devices. With greater diplomacy Biden
will pursue aggressive policies while using worn out ideological covers.
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Wallerstein’s conception intersects with dependency. He posits a five-century world system model with competitive pillars, secular cycles, and changing hegemonies. It portrays central, peripheral and intermediate insertions based on productive modalities and commercialized products. It describes the same polarization, stable stratification, and recreation of underdevelopment that diagnoses the Marxist theory of dependency.
But the two approaches diverge in several areas. Closed systems differ from contradictory modes of production. The exact forecast of terminal crises contrasts with the hierarchization of the political-social dimension. The automaticity of long cycles is contrasted with attention to class confrontation and the theories of absolute pauperization distance themselves from the gravitation assigned to social conquests.
There are also discrepancies in the inclusion of the former socialist bloc within the world system and in the assessment of anti-imperialist mediations and national revolutionary traditions. The record of emancipation as an episode that is only contemporary and unrealizable in the past is highly controversial and controversy persists regarding political strategies that disregard the state.
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The global economic crisis is deteriorating at a rate as dizzying as the pandemic is. The reduction in economic growth and the sudden halt in China’s production system are now behind us. Now the price of oil has collapsed, stock markets have plummeted and panic in the financial world has set in.Leer texto completo [PDF]

The following is from a lecture the author, an Argentine Marxist economist and political analyst, gave at the reception for the 12th Liberator Award for Critical Thinking 2019. It was given for his book, “La Teoría de la Dependencia, 50 años después” (“Theory of Dependency, 50 Years Later”).Leer texto completo [PDF]

Latin America is experiencing an abrupt change generated by enormous confrontations between the dispossessed and the privileged. This confrontation includes both revolts by the people andreactions by the oppressors.

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The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right’s hypocrisy in its attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn’t act alone: similar forces are alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.

It is clearthat the new president of Brazil was a product of the institutional coup against Dilma. The large-scale electoral manipulation designed to prevent the victory of the PTalso ended up overwhelming the old parties of the right: they silenced Lula, but they also demolished the traditional conservative formations. The arrival of anunexpected captain at the head of state gives rise to multiple unknowns.

Writing about Nicaragua is as painful and sad as it is indispensable. Memories of the Sandinista Revolution are still alive for the generation that lived through it. To remain silent would be an affront to those who took part in that memorable insurrection against Somoza.

It was always clear that Argentine president Mauricio Macri governed for the rich and that his economic model would lead to a great crisis. The first affirmation was corroborated by the regressive redistribution of income perpetrated by his government over the last two years. The second has begun to be confirmed with the run on the peso during the last week of May 2018.