Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American
project to dominate the world through military force has its roots
in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of
liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where
European political culture since the French Revolution has given a
central place to values of equality, the American state has
developed to serve the interests of capital alone, and is now
exporting this model throughout the world. American imperialism,
Amin argues, will be far more barbaric than earlier forms of
imperialism, pillaging natural resources and destroying the lives
of the poor.
The Liberal Virus examines the ways in which the American model
is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and
political consequences. It shows how both citizenship and class
consciousness are diluted in "low-intensity democracy" and argues
instead for democratization as an ongoing process--of fundamental
importance for human progress--rather than a fixed constitutional
formula designed to support the logic of capital accumulation.
In a panoramic overview, Amin examines the objectives and
outcomes of American policy in the different regions of the world.
He concludes by outlining the challenges faced by those resisting
the American project today: redefining European liberalism on the
basis of a new compromise between capital and labor,
re-establishing solidarity among the people of the South, and
reconstructing an internationalism that serves the interests of
regions that are currently divided against each other.
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