On 2015/03/18 05:06 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
I don't know what the Chinese would do. But more choices for countries
like Greece are better. You don't have to believe that China is
wonderful to think that Greece would be better off with more choices
for where to get credit.
A choice of financial imperialism or financial wannabe-imperialism? No
thanks, comrade!
A new book's going to make the merits of this choice clearer, hopefully
with a Left Forum launch in NYC, end of May (with Haymarket, Pluto and
Joburg and Delhi copubs):
*BRICS*
*An Anti-Capitalist Critique*
**
*Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia*
**
*Table of Contents*
**
1.Ana Garcia and Patrick Bond: Introduction
*Part 1: Sub-imperial, inter-imperial or capitalist-imperial? *
2.Patrick Bond: BRICS and the sub-imperial location
3.Mathias Luce: Sub-imperialism, the highest stage of dependent capitalism
4.Virginia Fontes: BRICS and capitalist-imperialism
5.Leo Panitch: BRICS, the G20 and American Empire
6.Claudio Katz: Mutations in emerging, intermediate and peripheral
capitalism
*Part 2: BRICS 'develop' Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe
*
7.Baruti Amisi, Patrick Bond, Richard Kamidza, Farai Maguwu and Bobby
Peek: BRICS corporate snapshots during African extractivism**
8.Ana Garcia and Karina Kato: The story of the hunter or the hunted,
when Brazil comes to Angola and Mozambique
9.Omar Bonilla: Chinese oil geopolitics in the Andean region
10.Pedro Henrique Campos: Transnationalised Brazilian construction capital
11.Judith Marshall: Behind the image of South-South solidarity at
Brazil's Vale**
12.Einar Braathen, Celina Sørbøe and Gilmar Mascarenhas: Rio's ruinous
mega-events
13. Ruslan Dzarasov: Modern Russia as semi-peripheral, dependent capitalism
14. Gonzalo Pozo:Russian neoliberal imperialism and the Eurasian challenge
*Part 3: BRICS within global capitalism*
15.William Robinson: BRICS within transnational capitalism
16.Elmar Altvater: BRICS within fossil capitalism
17.Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros: Scramble, resistance and non-alignment
strategy
18.Susanne Soederberg: BRICS' dangerous endorsement of 'financial
inclusion'
19. Ho-fung Hung: China and the lingering Pax Americana
20.Achin Vanaik: Future trajectories for BRICS?
21. Vijay Prashad: Does the South have a possible history?
22.Immanuel Wallerstein: Whose interests are served by the BRICS?
23. Niall Reddy: BRICS after the Durban and Fortaleza summits
24.Patrick Bond: BRICS from above, from the middle and from below
25.Ana Garcia: Building BRICS from below?
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