A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism
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Trump's "America First" policy is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy of capitalists and imperialists.FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Ashley Smith,
Truthout
Spurred on by the global justice movement of the late 1990s, and the U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, Marxists like David Harvey and Ellen Meiksins Wood have produced a flowering of theorization about capitalism and imperialism. Author William I. Robinson has been a key contributor to this new body of work, in particular with his books A Theory of Global Capitalism and Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity.
His latest collection of essays, Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism, is a provocative and accessible summary of his argument that globaliza...