Western claims are contradicted by empirical evidence.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and…
China’s globalisation paradox.
How can China dominate abroad while becoming less export-dependent?
Le paradoxe de la mondialisation de la Chine
Traduction française du billet de blog "China’s globalisation paradox. How can China dominate abroad while becoming less export-dependent?" de Richard
Na crise atual, Kwame Nkrumah voltou a ser leitura obrigatória
O líder afromarxista Kwame Nkrumah nasceu neste dia em 1909. Ele dissecou os meandros do avanço imperialista na África do século XX em sua tese contra o neocolonialismo. Com a nova ofensiva estadunidense no Sul Global, reler e se armar com os argumentos de seu livro Neocolonialismo: estágio superior do imperialismo se torna uma tarefa incontornável dos dois lados do Atlântico.
How Indigenous West African Communities Resisted the European Slave Trade
Compelling evidence of massive African resistance to Atlantic slavery can be found from the very onset of the European colonial arrival on the con-tinent. When the Portuguese gained control of the …
Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century - Monthly Review
John Smith teaches international political economy at Kingston University in London. This paper has been abstracted from his book Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press in... READ MORE
The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and undermined Western corporate profits.
Africa Was Not an Anarchist Paradise: Misconceptions about Precolonial State-Building in Africa
Africa was not an anarchist paradise; it underwent broadly similar processes of centralisation and state formation to those found elsewhere, with regional variation.
The Land That Failed to Fail (Published 2018)
The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting.
annotations: L'impact économique du colonialisme
traduction de "The economic impact of colonialism" de Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net | John Naughton
Technology is being used by China to exercise ever greater control over their workers’ lives
Globalization did not hollow out the American middle class
The protectionist narrative is more myth than fact.
How The US Took Over The World
Orientalism (book)
Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward Said, in which he establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the Western world's commonly contemptuous depiction and portrayal of the Eastern world. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit regions throughout Asia and North Africa. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of Western scholarship about the Eastern world, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.
Edward Said’s Orientalism and Its Afterlives
Edward Said’s Orientalism instilled an anti-imperial sensibility into an entire generation of Western scholars. But even while it castigated the imperial project, its actual analysis didn’t give us the intellectual resources to overturn it.
