Radhika Desai 资本主义 冠状病毒和战争 地缘政治经济

资本主义、冠状病毒和战争：地缘政治经济

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

资本主义、冠状病毒和战争调查了新自由主义金融化资本主义的衰落，正如新型冠状病毒引发但并未造成的危机所揭示的那样，这场危机因乌克兰冲突及其在全球范围内的影响而加深。

疫情导致国内经济和政治崩溃，加速了以美国为首的资本主义世界皇权的衰落，加剧了侵略和军国主义的倾向，如以美国为首的西方对华及其代理人的新冷战。因乌克兰问题与俄罗斯开战。这种资本主义形式的衰败和危机的地缘政治经济学表明，长期以来决定资本主义命运的与社会主义的斗争已经达到了一个转折点。作者认为，主流甚至许多进步力量都认为资本主义的长寿是理所当然的，误解了它的历史动态，并否认它与帝国主义的形成联系。本书所提供的只有从理论上和历史上准确地描述资本主义的动态和历史轨迹，才能解释其当前的失败和困境。它还揭示了为什么尽管这场流行病——通过揭示资本主义的严重不平等和令人震惊的衰弱——引发了几十年来对资本主义最严厉的批评，但“重建得更好”的希望却如此迅速地破灭了。本书深入探讨了新自由主义金融化资本主义和主导世界经济的美元信用政治正常化的主流叙事，即使是批评家也无法将资本主义的新自由主义转向与其金融化、历史衰退、生产衰弱和国际衰落联系起来。它认为，只有认识到危机的严重性并纠正我们对资本主义的认识，进步力量才能阻止混乱和/或独裁主义的未来，并开始建设社会主义的长期任务。

这本书将会引起国际关系、国际政治经济学、比较政治学和全球政治社会学领域的学生、学者和研究人员的极大兴趣。

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.