The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race — Capital, Power, and Empire
What if foreign intervention, economic expansion, and military power are not separate policies, but interacting parts of the same system?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race by Michael Parenti as our lens, this investigation examines the political economy Parenti argues lies beneath conventional explanations of U.S. foreign policy.
Rather than treating intervention, foreign aid, debt, anticommunism, client states, and military spending as isolated phenomena, Parenti connects…
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