Dialectical Materialism as a Tool for Analysis and Strategy
I. The Roots of Dialectical Materialism
From Theories and Concepts to Practices and Back Again
Statistics and Governance
Liberalism and Capitalism
The Social
Mao’s Contribution
II. The World According to Dialectical Materialism
Knowledge
Matter and Us
Things Are Connected
The Characteristics of Particular Contradictions
The Principal Contradiction
The Two Aspects of the Contradiction: Unity and Struggle
War
Catastrophe as Principal Contradiction
Conclusion
III. The Principal Contradiction in the World
The Beginnings of the Capitalist World System
Capitalism’s Contradictions and Colonialism (1850–1900)
Inter-Imperialist Rivalry I (1880–1917)
Capitalist Crisis and the State (1918–1930)
Inter-Imperialist Rivalry II (1939–1945)
The American World Order
Interactions
The Principal Contradiction in the World
Capital vs. the State
Neoliberalism (1975–2007)
Neoliberalism and Imperialism
The State Makes a Comeback
Rivals
Future Contradictions
Pandemics
IV. Strategy
From Analysis to Strategy
It’s Not Simple
In Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
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