Samir Amin's new book argues that America's continuing project to dominate the world through military force is rooted in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a dangerous new way. Where European political cult ...
Samir Amin's new book argues that America's continuing project to dominate the world through military force is rooted in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a dangerous new way. Where European political culture has given egalitarian values a central place since the French Revolution, the US government is solely serving the interests of capital and now exporting this model to the rest of the world. Amin argues that American imperialism will be far more brutal than previous forms of imperialism, plundering natural resources.
The liberal virus examines the methods of imposing the American model on the world and expresses its economic and political consequences. It shows how both citizenship and class consciousness are diluted in 'soft democracy' and instead argues for democratization as an ongoing process rather than a fixed constitutional formula designed to support the logic of capital accumulation.
Amin looks at the goals and results of American policy in different regions of the world. In the end, he explained the challenges faced by those who are resisting the American project today, saying: redefining European liberalism based on a new compromise between capital and labor, reestablishing solidarity among the people of the South, and rebuilding internationalism that serves the interests of the country. Regions that are currently divided against each other.
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