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What “security threat” does China pose?

[This article was published at Common Dreams.] Everyone who abhors war, detests imperialism, and favors cooperation between nations on...

The second Cold War is more dangerous than the first

[Published in Compact magazine.] Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the...

The left and the war in Ukraine

[Published at Common Dreams.] To be a leftist in the United States is a dispiriting experience, but in the last year one of the more...

Capitalism and colonialism

As I frequently and tiresomely reiterate, academic writing tends toward sophistry, superficiality, and obscurantism. Personally, my...

Notes on a radical interpretation of the Cold War

[Also here]. I’ve been reading Gabriel and Joyce Kolko’s classic The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–54...

Marxist theories of imperialism

[Years ago I took notes on the book mentioned below, which I thought I'd post here for the heck of it. Maybe someone will find them...

100 (more or less) left-wing books

Here's a list of some good leftist books I've come across over the years. Click on the titles for the PDFs. It's a somewhat arbitrary...

Notes on Indian resistance to the Spanish empire

With regard to the period between the 1530s and 1640s, the great Marxian historian Steve Stern divides the economic system that prevailed...

A Marxist history of World War II

I recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take...

The U.S. in Central America

Notes on a classic. (See also these notes.)— In Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1993), Walter LaFeber...

On late-19th-century decadence and its aftermath

What is the significance of the fact that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries certain (semi-fascist) sections of the...

Capitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)

The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...