Radhika Desai 資本主義 冠狀病毒和戰爭 地緣政治經濟

資本主義、冠狀病毒和戰爭：地緣政治經濟

https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalism-Coronavirus-War-Geopolitical-Economy/dp/1032059508
作者：拉迪卡·德賽 (Radhika Desai) 2022 年 12 月 9 日

資本主義、冠狀病毒和戰爭調查了新自由主義金融化資本主義的衰落，正如新型冠狀病毒引發但並未造成的危機所揭示的那樣，這場危機因烏克蘭衝突及其在全球範圍內的影響而加深。

疫情導致國內經濟和政治崩潰，加速了以美國為首的資本主義世界皇權的衰落，加劇了侵略和軍國主義的傾向，如以美國為首的西方對華及其代理人的新冷戰。因烏克蘭問題與俄羅斯開戰。這種資本主義形式的衰敗和危機的地緣政治經濟學表明，長期以來決定資本主義命運的與社會主義的鬥爭已經達到了一個轉折點。作者認為，主流甚至許多進步力量都認為資本主義的長壽是理所當然的，誤解了它的曆史動態，並否認它與帝國主義的形成聯係。本書所提供的隻有從理論上和曆史上準確地描述資本主義的動態和曆史軌跡，才能解釋其當前的失敗和困境。它還揭示了為什麽盡管這場流行病——通過揭示資本主義的嚴重不平等和令人震驚的衰弱——引發了幾十年來對資本主義最嚴厲的批評，但“重建得更好”的希望卻如此迅速地破滅了。本書深入探討了新自由主義金融化資本主義和主導世界經濟的美元信用政治正常化的主流敘事，即使是批評家也無法將資本主義的新自由主義轉向與其金融化、曆史衰退、生產衰弱和國際衰落聯係起來。它認為，隻有認識到危機的嚴重性並糾正我們對資本主義的認識，進步力量才能阻止混亂和/或獨裁主義的未來，並開始建設社會主義的長期任務。

這本書將會引起國際關係、國際政治經濟學、比較政治學和全球政治社會學領域的學生、學者和研究人員的極大興趣。

Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy 

https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalism-Coronavirus-War-Geopolitical-Economy/dp/1032059508
by Radhika Desai (Author)  Dec 9 2022

Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered but did not cause, a crisis that has been deepened by the conflict over Ukraine and its repercussions across the globe.

Leading domestically to economic and political breakdown, the pandemic accelerated the decline of the US-led capitalist world’s imperial power, intensifying the tendency to lash out with aggression and militarism, as seen in the US-led West’s New Cold War against China and the proxy war against Russia over Ukraine. The geopolitical economy of the decay and crisis of this form of capitalism suggests that the struggle with socialism that has long shaped the fate of capitalism has reached a tipping point. The author argues that mainstream and even many progressive forces take capitalism’s longevity for granted, misunderstand its historical dynamics and deny its formative bond with imperialism. Only a theoretically and historically accurate account of capitalism’s dynamics and historical trajectory, which this book provides, can explain its current failures and predicament. It also reveals why, though the pandemic―by revealing capitalism’s obscene inequality and shocking debility―prompted the most serious critiques of capitalism to emerge in decades, hopes of ‘building back better’ were so quickly dashed. This book sheds searching light on the dominant narratives that have normalised the neoliberal financialised capitalism and the dollar creditocracy dominating the world economy, with even critics unable to link capitalism’s neoliberal turn to its financialisations, historical decay, productive debility and international decline. It contends that only by appreciating the seriousness of the crisis and rectifying our understanding of capitalism can progressive forces thwart a future of chaos and/or authoritarianism and begin the long task of building socialism.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and researchers of international relations, international political economy, comparative politics and global political sociology.