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Torkel Lauesen's book "The Global Perspective: reflections on imperialism and resistance" looks interesting. We've put up on Redline an interview with him that first appeared in a German daily and was translated into English by LeftWing Books. *In 1991, you were sentenced to ten years in prison because of your antiimperialist activities. Now, 25 years later, you have written a book titled The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance. Has nothing changed?* Everything has changed in order to stay the same: The industrialization of the Global South and the global chains of production have intensified imperialism. Superprofits for capital have increased, while the prices for consumer goods in the Global North have decreased. U.S. hegemony has declined. We now live in a multipolar world with new powers emerging. So-called real socialism no longer exists, and national liberation movements have all but disappeared. *At the end of the 1980s, antiimperialism pretty much vanished from the left’s radar. Why?* National liberation struggles in the Global South subsided and neoliberalism ushered in a golden capitalist era. Furthermore, the talk about globalization concealed the ongoing reality of imperialism. . . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/interview-with-danish-anti-imperialist/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
