The Road to Renewed Imperialist World War (3rd edition) by Will Barnes instant download

The Road to Renewed Imperialist World War (3rd edition) by Will Barnes instant download

Imperialist activity first appeared in the 1870s as a response to the formation of capitals of historically unexampled size unable to find domestic outlets for capital investment, to a series of agriculturally-based, deflationary crises, to a tendency of the rate of profit to fall and to overproduction. Growing worker militancy finally pushed capitalists, hegemonizing the state, to attempt to resolve the contradictions in the domestic economy in the world arena...
This extensively revised edition incorporates novel analyses and discussions of the US interventions and wars of aggression both predating and postdating the last imperialist world war, and a new conclusion.Following that war, Soviet collapse ended a long period of stability. Conditions for renewed world war re-formed. They include reemergence of competing imperialist powers with technologically advanced industries (Germany and Japan) dating from the 1960s; following on the collapse of Soviet Union, the unraveling of the military alliances that suppressed competition restricting technical innovation largely to the armaments sector; the shift of industrial production to East Asia as one of two poles of economic activity in world capitalism, the other the rentier economies of the old capitalist metropolises, creating China as a rival imperialist focus of world accumulation. Today those rivalries play out in two areas, the western borderlands of Russia (Ukraine) and the Middle East.