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The ascendancy of Finance Capital: Record profits and rising authoritarianism
03.28.2006 :: United States No sector of the US economy, in recent years, can match the rate and size of profit which have accrued to the biggest financial institutions.
Neoliberal transformation and Class struggle
03.24.2006 :: AnalysisMarxism is about the concrete analysis of specific structures of capitalism as it evolves as a result of the class struggle and the inner dynamics of profit maximization.
New winds from the left or hot air from a New Right
03.15.2006 :: Latin AmericaThe Center Left regimes and their Left intellectual supporters represent a sad epitaph on the radical generation of the 1970\’s and 1980\’s: they are a spent force, lacking critical ideas and audacious proposals for challenging imperialism and capitalist rule
Past, present and future of China: From semi-colony to World Power?
03.13.2006 :: AnalysisThe general consensus is that China is emerging as the next great economic superpower. Despite growing awareness of severe ecological problems and occasional recognition of the growing social inequalities, many writers foresee China (and lately India) as the next world powers, challenging and surpassing Japan, Europe and the United States.