November 2022

Tomasz Konicz, 12.08.2022 The Climate Movement Needs Anti-Capitalist Guardrails for Its Coming Actions The climate movement should not be afraid of being accused of radicalism. Given the civilization-threatening dimensions of the climate crisis, solving this monstrous problem is a matter of sheer collective will to survive. It is obvious that global capitalism, in its unbridled

26.07.2022, Tomasz Konicz The cruel lobbying and business practices of the app-based ­transport service ­Uber are in line with its brutal business model. And they are an expression of the processes of barbarism in the ­centers ­caused by the crisis. Some 124,000 internal documents comprise the so-called Uber Files, leaked to the press by Mark

17.07.2022, Tomasz Konicz The invasion of Ukraine is a military disaster for the Kremlin. But in the economic showdown Russia seems to have the upper hand – for now. In the first weeks of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, when the Kremlin’s megalomania led to the humiliating Russian retreat from Kiev and northern Ukraine,

Tomasz Konicz, Originally published in konkret in 07/2022 The fact that parts of the world are facing a devastating famine cannot be attributed solely to the consequences of the Ukraine war. Putin did it! This exclamation, which the Kremlin ruler’s auburn-haired German fan base likes to use with a wink to ridicule any criticism of

22.07.2021, Tomasz KoniczThe wonderful world of bond markets – currently far more exciting than many functionaries in the state and financial sector might like. Dull, dreary, mind-numbing – these are usually the words used to describe the bond markets of the core of the world system. When capital needs to be parked safely, when pension

21.07.2022, Tomasz KoniczFor the first time in over 30 years, Germany recorded a negative trade balance. The export-fixated German economic model is facing a crisis. “Export world champion” is now a thing of the past: in May, the German trade balance recorded a deficit for the first time since 1991, albeit only to the tune

13.07.2022, Tomasz KoniczThe Republican-hijacked US judiciary is on the road to post-democracy. The smartphone is the best weapon against widespread police violence in the United States. The police killing of George Floyd,[1] which led to mass protests across the country in May of 2020 and reignited the Black Lives Matter movement, would not have been

11.06.2022, Tomasz Konicz A brief background on the aporias of bourgeois crisis politics in the transition of the world economy from pandemic to war-related crisis. From pandemic to war – the world economy is obviously not coming to rest. On its website, the Tagesschau sees the world economy threatened by “multiple crises.”[1] But when it

24.05.2022, Tomasz Konicz Why There Will Be No Stable Post-War Order After the End of The War Over Ukraine Is this the big one? Is this the big crash that will overturn everything that has been established in global structures and dynamics since the breakthrough of neoliberalism in the 1980s? The war over Ukraine could

The Rupture in German-Russian Relations and The Return of War as A Continuation of Imperialist Geopolitics in Europe 22.02.2022, Tomasz Konicz Shock and awe – that’s the denominator of the massive Russian attack on Ukraine, in which dozens of targets have been shelled in a very short time to paralyze Ukrainian forces and prevent coordinated