[PDF] Fighting Against Western Imperialism eBook

Author : Andre Vltchek
Publisher : Badak Merah Semesta
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2014-06-20
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ISBN : 9786027005822

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FIGHTING AGAINST WESTERN IMPERIALISM compiles ten modified essays that were written during just a few months of the onslaught of the Western imperialism all over the world. Andre Vltchek had traveled the world searching for parallels, similarities; comparing scenarios. He tried to grasp, and then to explain, how the Empire really works, how it selects its targets, which countries it decides to destroy and why? He studied the 'opposition movements' manufactured by Washington and London, and how they get implanted in so many different parts of the world; basically wherever people and their governments still dare to insist on defending their own national interests and choosing their own political as well as economic systems.

Author : Michael M. Sheng
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691223297

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One of the central issues in the study of the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign policy is its relations with Moscow. Was the CCP a Chinese nationalist party antagonistic to an intrusive Soviet Union or was it rather an internationalist party with ideological-political and strategic-military ties to Moscow, faithfully adhering to Marxist-Leninist principles as well as to Stalin's policy advice? For the past two decades a number of historians have argued that the CCP was a nationalist movement and that the United States missed its opportunity to establish friendly relations because U.S. leaders were blinded by fears of an international Communist threat. In his provocative book, Michael Sheng strongly challenges this position. On the basis of extensive new information obtained from recently available Chinese sources, Sheng demonstrates that the foreign policy of the CCP under Mao Zedong did, in fact, follow the directions recommended by Joseph Stalin. Sheng reveals that Mao and Stalin were in frequent and direct contact by radio and by correspondence, beginning in 1936, and that Mao consistently acted on Stalin's advice. Battling Western Imperialism analyzes the CCP's relations with both the Soviet Union and the United States and provides conclusive evidence that there was no "lost opportunity" for the U.S. in China. He shows that the CCP viewed the United States as a hostile capitalist power that opposed its revolutionary aims. The author has drawn on an unprecedented collection of Chinese-language materials to make a powerful new argument.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691154325

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In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.

Author : Rohini Hensman
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608469123

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Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism. The analysis shows that the Russian revolution was followed by a counter-revolution, and resulted in state capitalism and the revival of Russian imperialism under cover of the Soviet Union. Thus the Cold War was actually a prolonged period of inter-imperialist rivalry between the United States and Russia. A large section of socialists who call themselves anti-imperialists oppose only Western imperialism and the despots it supports, not Russian imperialism and despots like Bashar al-Assad who are supported by it. As Russia has moved further and further to the right under Putin, they have effectively defected to the far right. They and other socialists also mistakenly believe that political democracy is organically connected to capitalism and therefore need not be defended, whereas, on the contrary, democracy is only established by mass struggles, and is an indispensable resource in the fight against exploitation and oppression. Finally, these socialists fail to understand that without internationalism, it is impossible to defeat global capitalism and its neoliberal policies. All the case studies in this book represent attempts to carry out democratic revolutions, which are supported by genuine socialist internationalists but opposed by pseudo-anti-imperialists. The book ends by suggesting steps that can be taken to promote democracy and end mass slaughter.

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0143035835

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“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“ "A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of corruption that has plagued our own democracy: racism, free market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism. This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0691139334

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In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.

Author : Eloy Andrs Gmez Motos
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
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ISBN : 9781545516430

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Title; "Western imperialism: when Europe owns three-fifths of the world," it responds to a very determined period, the one of end of century XIX and beginnings of the XX (until the IWW), during which happened events of enormous importance for the world, since It is then that the West (fundamentally the great European powers) embarked on the definitive export of their social, political and economic forms and ways of life to the rest of the known world. That is why I have chosen this subtitle. However, other historical epochs commonly associated with the power and expansionism of the West, from the fifteenth century (conquest and colonization of America), and even at least the seventies of the last century, in a process Historical that is not yet exhausted or finished, and whose dire consequences I intend to show to future generations and to the current leaders in this book. Western imperialism thus constitutes in itself a broad chapter in the history of mankind, in which the very worst characteristics of the human species in general and the danger of the exercise of power by the Elites in particular. However, in this book, there is an alleged social character in the form of regional studies, since I consider that imperialism is not a global phenomenon, but is limited to very determined regions, which have been the protagonists of imperialism since The historical point of view. In this way, I focus on imperialism at the western root (it should be noted that when I speak of the West, I do so mainly from Europe, as well as from the United States).

Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0691175845

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The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.