I can't recommend listening to Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson enough... they're two amazing economists whose discussions are often way over my head but are at least understandable enough to want to keep listening to more. This recent interview with them covering the economics behind the Ukraine War is great: https://watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=CkQCSPM2QUY
...as is this intro discussion to a 3-part series on how money, the dollar system, and US economic hegemony work (or don't): https://watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=Ew21FOlftkU
For me, who spent so much of my adult life feeling ever more trapped by an atomizing identity-politics-based (and not in the Combahee River Collective sense, which was largely about centering Black women) leftist culture, listening to these two speak about broad geopolitical paradigms and who holds real power within them is like waking up from a coma...
#Ukraine #economics #RadhikaDesai #MichaelHudson #GeopoliticalEconomy

OnlineFirst - "Ten theses on the new state capitalism and its futures" by Ilias Alami:

#statecapitalism #varietiesofcapitalism #geopoliticaleconomy #statetheory #statism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231156910