The Road to Renewed Imperialist World War (Revised, Expanded and Updated) by Will Barnes instant download

The Road to Renewed Imperialist World War (Revised, Expanded and Updated) by Will Barnes instant download

Against a backdrop of novel technologically productive inputs, the appearance of capitals of historically unexampled size and a series of agriculturally-based, deflationary crises, modern imperialism emerged later in the long nineteenth century as national ruling classes began to feel pressure emanating from proletarian groups or worker-farmer axes challenging the political hegemony of capital.
Imperialist activity first appeared as a response to development based on the cyclical movement of expansion and contraction, to a general rise in labor’s productivity (expressed in the tendency of the rate of profit to fall), to concentration and centralization, and to overproduction. It was growing worker militancy that finally pushed capitalists, hegemonizing the state, to attempt to resolve the contradictions in the domestic economy in the world arena.
Following victory of “democratic” imperialists in the last world war, Soviet collapse ended a long period of stability. Conditions for renewed world war have re-formed. They include reemergence of competing imperialist powers on the basis of technologically advanced bases (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 and consequently the increasingly frenzied pace as which capital’s science shapes production; the shift of industrial production to East Asia and formation of two poles of economic activity in world capitalism, dynamically industrial East Asia and 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.
Bringing the account up through the first month of Trump’s second presidency,  this revised, expanded and updated edition also incorporates explanatory appendices.