This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week’s thread is here.
Welcome to the sixteenth week of Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance! I’m reading the Third Edition.
For every week, I will write a summary of the chapter(s) read, for those who have already read the book and don’t wish to reread, can’t follow along for various reasons, or for those joining later who want to dive right in to the next book without needing to pick this one up too. I will post all my chapter summaries in this final thread, for access in one convenient location. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group.
This week, we will be reading Chapter 15: The Monetary Offensive of Spring 1973, which is approximately 32 pages.
To answer @Cowbee@hexbear.net’s question from last week, my tentative plan is to have two or three weeks’ break to give everybody a break, time to catch up, evaluate if they want to still be in this group, decide on the next book, and also for me to finish my notes (I’m about halfway through them; writing notes is harder than doing initial reading, unsurprisingly).
The final week of Superimperialism will be the week beginning June 16th (as I’m treating the Epilogue as a distinct chapter). So my proposition is to start the next book on the week beginning July 14th. I think we should read something that’s a little shorter and less dense/complicated, so if anybody here has any recommendations along those lines, put them forward!
Sounds good! I’ll pitch The Wretched of the Earth, or How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.