Madness and Capitalist Civilization (Tariff Dossier)

At Heatwave, we have taken pains to consider this recent flurry of events against the background of late 20th and early 21st century social conflict. Still, events proceed too rapidly to have the last word on the matter. The “national emergency” of America economic decline is decidedly a global matter. Today, economic nationalism and American revanchism are rattling the infrastructure of global capitalism, the imperial ordering of world production. The trade wars dominate every news cycle. Worst hit among the belligerents is China. Now several administrations old, the U.S.-China trade war escalated rapidly over the last couple months in an exchange of retaliatory tariffs.

— Madness and Capitalist Civilization

52 pg