Neoliberalism and Imperialism
DSA Night School
What exactly are neoliberalism and imperialism? Are they different from capitalism? What are their origins and their effects? These readings provide definitions of neoliberalism and imperialism through historical insight and examples of these ideologies at work.
Capitalism and Dispossession
- How Will Capitalism End?, Wolfgang Streeck, New Left Review
- Neoliberalism Is a Political Project, David Harvey, Jacobin
- Accumulation by Dispossession, David Harvey, The New Imperialism
- Superintending Global Capital, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, New Left Review
What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?
- Words Can't Do the Work for Us, Julia Ott, Dissent
- On Neoliberalism, David Harvey (interview), Monthly Review
- Neoliberalism's Deadly Experiment, Josiah Rector, Jacobin
- Unmaking Global Capitalism, Sam Gindin, Jacobin
The 2008 Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath
- The Austerity of the Obama Years, Mike Konczal, Dissent
- Who Caused the Great Crash of 2008?, Lee Sustar, Socialist Worker
- Ten Theses on the Crisis, Albo, Panitch, and Gindin, In and Out of Crisis
History and Theory of Imperialism
- Excerpts from In the Ruins of the Present: Tricontinental Working Document, Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental
- Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, John Smith, Monthly Review
- Global Capitalism as Imperialist Construct, Esteban Mercatante, Left Voice
- Financial Imperialism: The Case of Venezuela, Jack Rasmus, Counterpunch
- Excerpts from Latin America and the Theory of Imperialism, Eduardo Galeano, Monthly Review
- Superintending Global Capitalism, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, New Left Review
Anti-Imperialist Strategy
- Solidarity isn’t a slogan, it’s a process, Conversation with Vijay Prashad, Monthly Review Online
- Bay Area Longshore Workers Fought Against Apartheid, Peter Cole, FoundSF
- Social Democracy at Home Requires Anti-Imperialism Abroad, Interview with Aziz Rana, Jacobin
- Ending Economic Conscription, Meagan Day, Jacobin
- No Room for Debate, Daniel Finn, Jacobin
- “I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy”, Interview with Bernie Sanders, Sydney Ember, New York Times