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Chargement... The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the Worldpar Samir Amin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Maybe not anything particularly new, but a well-written summary - if obviously condensed - of the problems of liberalism and American political thought. Made me think more about how USA-centric a lot of discourse is. The last quarter is his geopolitical ideas to combat the USA, which are interesting and not focused on Marxist ideas, although I can't make much informed comment about them. Overall I really appreciate his style, which is a lot clearer than a lot of writers and doesn't do a load of equivocation - it focuses on the issues at hand and I wish others would take note. An enjoyable read. ( ) A book about liberalism that speaks neither of Grotius nor Locke? This book is really about imperial capitalism, a kind of critique against the policies of war and Washington Consensus - not against liberal ideology. Amin belongs to the French post-colonial sphere and wrote the book in French before it was translated, which may be why “liberal,” gets lost in translation. Although he does, in the fourth chapter of the book, formally seem to want to speak of ideology, he is so engulfed in his positionality of critic that at no point does he take time to define what he is criticising - liberalism - as it understands itself on its own terms. One would hope this would be a departure point, if not necessarily the departure point. Unfortunately, he doesn’t say much that is new to me, and what he does say isn't structured to be explicit enough to make this a primary text of reference. While The Liberal Virus is largely good, neomarxist fare, I wouldn't recommend it over, say, E.M. Wood's The Origin of Capitalism or, if your interest was actually liberalism as an ideological system, say, Domenico Losurdo’s work on that topic. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture since the French Revolution has given a central place to values of equality, the American state has developed to serve the interests of capital alone, and is now exporting this model throughout the world. American imperialism, Amin argues, will be far more barbaric than earlier forms of imperialism, pillaging natural resources and destroying the lives of the poor. The Liberal Virus examines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political consequences. It shows how both citizenship and class consciousness are diluted in "low-intensity democracy" and argues instead for democratization as an ongoing process--of fundamental importance for human progress--rather than a fixed constitutional formula designed to support the logic of capital accumulation. In a panoramic overview, Amin examines the objectives and outcomes of American policy in the different regions of the world. He concludes by outlining the challenges faced by those resisting the American project today: redefining European liberalism on the basis of a new compromise between capital and labor, re-establishing solidarity among the people of the South, and reconstructing an internationalism that serves the interests of regions that are currently divided against each other. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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