Why America Thinks It Has to Run the World

Horhey · Jul 3, 2020

Why America Thinks It Has to Run the World - The Atlantic

the delicate matter of American efforts to assert international economic and political control.
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It is a projection of oligarchy: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

An inevitable outgrowth of Capitalism:

It is sometimes known as the “Washington Consensus,” a set of 10 policies that became the new economic common sense.

These policies included reduction of top marginal tax rates, the liberalization of trade, privatization of government services, and deregulation. These became the sensible things for generic people in Washington and other global headquarters to embrace and promote, and the policies were pushed on other countries via global institutions like the International Monetary Fund.

"Neoliberalism" isn't an empty epithet. It's a real, powerful set of ideas - Vox
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the economic development of these countries, adapted to the shifting market of the industrial countries of the northern hemisphere and handicapped by a system of large landed estates, was so unbalanced as to prevent the emergence of an economically strong and politically conscious middle class.

- U.S. State Department's Office of Intelligence Research
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No longer limited to the Global South:

Oxfam Report Contains Dire Warning for Global Capitalism

"Extreme wealth,” the authors say, “is a sign of a failing economic system.” Oxfam found that just 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people combined. As Oxfam India CEO Amitabh Behar said in a statement ahead of the report’s release, “Our broken economies are lining the pockets of billionaires and big business at the expense of ordinary men and women. No wonder people are starting to question whether billionaires should even exist.”
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Capitalism will eat itself just as Marx predicted.

Richard Wolff: "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism."

Horhey · Jul 8, 2020

Washington committed itself to building and maintaining an international economic and political order based on what officials at the time termed a U.S. "preponderance of power." In this way Lenin was right: imperialism is, or allows for, "the highest stage of capitalism".

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...merica-thinks-it-has-to-run-the-world/376599/
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