US Defeat In Afghanistan Signals an Irrational, Declining Empire - Global Capitalism

Описание: Prof Wolff analyzes the U.S. defeat in Afghanistan and what our "defense" policies reveal about U.S. priorities and problems that contribute to the country's decline.

"This is a system that has lost even the little bit of rationality it once had. It is driven by specific, particular, what we used to call, special interests who are doing it at the expense of the society as a whole. The defeat in Afghanistan has been a powerful signal around the world that the American empire is in decline." - Richard Wolff

This is a clip from the September 2021 Global Capitalism Lecture: US Capitalism's Decline Accelerates.
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