Imperialism in the 21st Century reviewed by The Progressive Populist

Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis

384 pp, $28 pbk, ISBN 9781583675779
By John Smith

Reviewed by Seth Sandronsky

“Why are hundreds of millions of people in nonwhite nations mired in dreadful poverty? Blame the world system, details John Smith in Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century. ¶ His thesis flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that modern capitalism is a force for human development. According to Smith, the opposite is the case, as the Global North deindustrializes. ¶ As that process has unfolded since the 1970s, the Global South has industrialized without the broad-based prosperity that characterized the US in the postwar era, Smith writes. The outcome has vital consequences, beginning with the prevalence of the industrial working class living in the Global South….”

Read the entire review in The Progressive Populist, July 1-15, 2016