Dmitry Pozhidaev reviews Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, which aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marxβs value theory.
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Russian socialist and political economist Ilya Matveev sat down with ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes to discuss imperialismβs βtwo logicsβ and how they help us better understand the world today.
Sam Gindin is the co-author of (with Leo Panitch). ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes spoke to Gindin about the nature of the current tensions between states within global capitalism and whether China and Russia could replace the United States empire.
In the first of a two-part interview, ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes speaks to Socialist Alliance national co-convenor Sam Wainwright about Australian imperialism, its military alliance with the United States and prospects for working-class solidarity across borders.
Less than a month after Lee Jong-sup was appointed South Korea's (RoK's) ambassador to Australia, he was forced to resigned on March 29, amidst protests in South Korea and Australia. Seona Cho, an activist with Melbourne Candlelight Action, explains the background to this scandal and its links to the growing ties between US, Australian and South Korean arms manufacturers.
Lai Ching-Te (William Lai) won Taiwanβs presidential election on January 13, with 40.5% of the vote, achieving a record third term for the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, reports Alex Salmon.
Marxist sociologist and author William I Robinson speaks to ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes about how contradictions between a globally integrated economy and a nation-state-based system help explain, among other things, rising US-China tensions.
Youngsu Won is a socialist and coordinator of the International Forum in South Korea. Speaking to ΒιΆΉΣ³»βs Federico Fuentes, he discusses how rising tensions between the United States and China impact South Korean politics.