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The Dig: The Capitalist Conjuncture w/ Tim Barker

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Do You Think We're in a Crisis?

During the Cold War, the US exercised global hegemony through military dominance and intervention. But now all we have is overwhelming military power, whose limits have been exposed multiple times in really consequential and dramatic ways over the last two decades. So that's one aspect of the Cold War system we're seeing reach an impasse. And I think it's become much more plausible to think about a kind of interimperial conflict between the US and China as capitalist countries.

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