This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week’s thread is here.

Welcome to the seventeenth week of Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance! I’m reading the Third Edition.

For every week, I will write a summary of the chapter(s) read, for those who have already read the book and don’t wish to reread, can’t follow along for various reasons, or for those joining later who want to dive right in to the next book without needing to pick this one up too. I will post all my chapter summaries in this final thread, for access in one convenient location. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group.

This week, we will be reading Chapter 16: Monetary Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, which is approximately 15 pages.

  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Apologies for the lack of a new thread. I haven’t forgotten about this, I’ve just been struggling to find time to get on it while events in the Middle East are going on. Israel must have timed their operation to begin when we finished this book or something.

    Anyway, given that this week was supposed to be epilogue week, I don’t think it matters that much, but I will be posting a sort of containment thread next week. My proposed schedule (to start the next book in mid-July) might be yet further delayed because I’ll probably be spending a big chunk of my free time on the news mega, especially if the US enters the conflict. For now I’ll keep the date of the beginning of the next book a little open-ended as I don’t want to promise something I can’t keep to, but assuming WW3 doesn’t start, I’m thinking maybe the end of July, early August. Also, perhaps we should shift our next geopolitical reading to the Middle East, so if anybody has any strong recommendations on that front, I’m all ears.

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    haha i caught up to you Care-Comrade i’m actually now wondering, do gulf state shenanigans connected to sports flows from “can’t buy our shit, surplus countries, here buy golf or mma promotion”.

    also soviet importing grain, thanks corn-man-khrush. I wonder though why soviets were bothering with gas extraction and selling, whatever for?