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But Phil, admit it comrade, your redline team hasn't really begun to
grapple with the thesis of BRICS-as-subimperialist, aside from the
too-rapid dismissal of Panitch/Gindin's Washington-centric version of
imperialism.
This is the subject of a debate I'm having with Mark Weisbrot in
Washington a week from tomorrow:
http://www.ips-dc.org/events/brownbag-debate-pros-vs-cons-brics/
There's a bigger sense of the notion of sub-imperialism than this,
fusing the Ruy Mauro Marini neo-dependency school now rising in Brazil
with some of our more Luxemburgist-inclined thinking about
capital/non-capitalist relations. The first cut at this fusion is in
portuguese/english here:
http://www.tensoesmundiais.net/index.php/tm/issue/view/16/showToc
On climate, here's an indication: http://links.org.au/node/4035 and
another: http://triplecrisis.com/brics-cook-the-climate-part-one/ and
http://triplecrisis.com/brics-cook-the-climate-part-two/
On finance and the new BRICS Bank/Contingent Reserve Arrangement here's
a report from Fortaleza:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/01/how-brics-became-co-dependent-upon-eco-financial-imperialism/
and
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-09-20-are-brics-of-any-use-for-rebuilding-the-collapsing-global-financial-architecture/#.VBaFVhZvaIU
One debate with a well known South advocate, Yash Tandon, is here:
http://yashtandon.com/on-sub-imperialism-and-brics-bashing/
and http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/92085 based on this:
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/91303
Another in Yash's camp is Horace Campbell:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/29/the-future-of-the-brics-development-bank/
Even the mainstream is becoming more aware of this framing:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/us-brics-africa-idUSBRE92P0FU20130326
And the SA foreign minister is not pleased:
http://www.dfa.gov.za/docs/speeches/2013/mash0313.html
A recent set of slides making this argument:
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?11,65,3,3282
South Africa's most recent naughty sub-impi act unveiled:
http://mg.co.za/article/2014-09-11-sa-spooks-fixed-guinea-poll?ars=true
But look, after all is said and done about global geopolitical dynamics,
financial melt, climate catastrophe and other failures of globo gov
amplified by sub-imperialism, the most decisive proof of all - even you
would confess - lies in the management of a big event we held in 2010,
Brazil held in mid-2014 and Russia will hold in 2018. If, thanks to the
rampant Swiss mafia's repeated relegitimation by the Brics, the
're-election' of Sepp Blatter to run Fifa for a fifth term is not a
convincing display of subimperialist soccer, what is?!
Cheers,
Patrick
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