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Tomasz Konicz, 28.07.2026 The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, skyrocketing fertilizer prices, and climate change threaten to trigger a global food crisis. Late-capitalist agriculture is existentially dependent on fossil fuels and produces not only food but also the very conditions of its own destabilization. At first glance, it seems absurd, but the inhabitants of […]

A look back and ahead at the crisis-imperialist constellations within which the self-administration in northern Syria’s Rojava region must assert itself. Tomasz Konicz, 07.07.2026 To understand the current catastrophe facing the Kurdish freedom movement in Rojava, it helps to look back at its geopolitical context during the height of the Syrian civil war. The United

What the AI revolution will certainly destroy is the illusion of a working society, one that has been maintained with great difficulty since the IT revolution of the 1980s. Tomasz Konicz, 19.04.2026 The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in late-capitalist working society – apart from a few niches in the IT industry –

The US can only end the war against Iran at the cost of a strategic defeat – therefore, uncontrollable escalation is looming Tomasz Konicz / 26 March 2026 Does it even make sense anymore to take note of the statements of the – well – President of the United States? Since the beginning of the

About a year after taking office, the results of Donald Trump’s tariff policy are mixed and contradictory. The number of industrial jobs in the U.S. has actually declined slightly, as rationalization in the production process continues to advance, driven in part by AI programs. Tomasz Konicz, 25.03.2026 In and out of tariffs – this is

If the Iran conflict escalates, the region faces the threat of another wave of statelessness. Tomasz Konicz, 22.03.2026 Trump went way back, all the way to the 1979 embassy takeover and the 1983 Beirut bombing against U.S. troops, to justify the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran in an initial statement.[1] Even though the U.S.

And how does it differ from the classical imperialism of earlier eras? March 19, 2026, Tomasz Konicz, translation OlIver Blackwell Crisis imperialism is the state’s quest for dominance – carried out through economic, political, or military means – during an era of contraction in the valorization process of capital. The state apparatuses of the core

A Polemic on the Post-Leftist Desire for self-deception in the midst of a manifest socio-ecological systemic crisis. Tomasz Konicz, March 11, 2026. Translation by OlIver Blackwell They are anything but modest when it comes to their ostentatiously displayed modesty. The leaders of the so-called “Left Party” (Partei dei Linke – hereinafter PDL), Ines Schwerdtner and

Prospects for new forms of crisis competition in the looming authoritarian era of widespread late-capitalist scarcity. Tomasz Konicz, March 4, 2026 | translation by OlIver Blackwell Competition is for losers – Peter Thiel[1] More RAM! There simply cannot be enough memory produced after OpenAI secured a large share of the world’s production of this essential

Could the U.S. attack on Iran have resulted in the first major AI war crime? 06.05.2026 A thousand targets in 24 hours! What Jeff Bezos left of the Washington Post (WaPo) editorial staff after his last purge1 reported on March 4th about the enormous military success of AI systems.2 The attack on Iran represents the

The pillars of the global financial system, the bond markets of the core states of the late capitalist world system, are beginning to wobble. 22.02.2026 „Japan, Japan / Samurai / und schon kommt / der Tod herbei.“ Abwärts1 It was a historic victory for Japan’s unofficial ruling party, the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party), which Prime

Remarks on the transition of the United States to open fascistisation Tomasz Konicz / November 1, 2025 “We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.” Donald Trump1 The assassination of the fascist Charlie Kirk – his correct name – in September 2025 marks a tipping point in the process of the fascistisation

September 13, 2025 – Translation by OlIver Blackwell Why is the globalization process turning into protectionism and deglobalization? Tomasz Konicz Olaf Scholz was moved to tears. The taz published a glowing review. Netflix has made it into a movie. We are talking about Hillbilly Elegy, by the incumbent Vice President of the United States, JD

The reindustrialization of the USA, which Trump wants to force through his protectionism, is being undermined by automation trends in industry. June 6, 2025, by Tomasz Konicz – Translation by OlIver Blackwell What does Donald Trump want? Since the so-called “Liberation Day” at the beginning of April, when the right-wing populist announced the introduction of

The chances that the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul will lead to a quick or even fair peace are slim. Tomasz Konicz, May 16, 2025, Translation by OlIver Blackwell The fact that peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow were able to take place in Istanbul highlights just how bad the military situation in Ukraine is. On

The lessons that the bourgeoisie learned from the great systemic crisis of the 1930s have long been forgotten in Trump’s Washington. Tomasz Konicz, 06.04.2025, Originally published on konicz.info on 03/28/25 Want some more? When it comes to tariffs and trade barriers, the U.S. president is known to be extravagant. In response to the EU’s announcement

With its protectionist tariff policy, the new U.S. government is ushering in the end of the age of neoliberal globalization. Tomasz Konicz, 06.04.2025, Originally published in jungle world on 02/27/2025 Protectionism is likely to become the new normal. The first foreign policy reflex of the new U.S. administration was to instigate trade wars. At the

The Chinese AI company Deepseek is shaking up the business model of the emerging industry. Tomasz Konicz, 06.04.2025, Originally published on konicz.info on 02/16/2025 The shockwaves that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek sent through the American high-tech industry also produced ironic, downright comical moments. ChatGPT developer OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, accused the Chinese

Trump’s move will probably lead to an end to the war, but how much will Ukraine have to pay? Tomasz Konicz, Originally published in analyse & kritik on 02/18/2025 Are the imperialists in the Kremlin on the home stretch of their war of aggression in Ukraine? With right-wing populist Donald Trump taking office, Ukraine’s already

The purges and deportations threatened by Trump have already begun. Tomasz Konicz, 21.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 02/06/2025 It seems that what follows neoliberalism is based on the methods that neoliberalism used in previous decades to implement its infamous structural adjustment programs. They are fascistoid decay products of neoliberalism that are now unwinding the neoliberally

Remarks on the development of late capitalist democracy in authoritarian Germany. Tomasz Konicz, 20.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 01/28/2025 It is a primitive, obvious scam that anyone who wants to can see through immediately: Every time a person with a migration background, a refugee or a foreigner commits a crime, a new round of fascization

America’s Oligarchic Path into the Coming Era of Fascist Crisis Management Tomasz Konicz, 18.03.2025Originally published on konicz.info on 01/22/2025 The catastrophe that not only America is now heading for was already looming before Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. “Nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected, Biden assured wealthy donors at a New York campaign

How the democratic center of crisis-ridden Germany is paving the way for fascism Tomasz Konicz, 17.03.2025 Originally published on konicz.info on 01/28/25 and updated on 02/01/25 The ease and smoothness with which the fascization of Germany is taking place in the 2025 election campaign is downright dizzying. It is happening in rapid succession, and it

By Tomasz Konicz / March 15, 2025 A brief overview of the crisis-driven dismantling of the remnants of American hegemony by the Trump administration. Greenland and Panama, Mexico and Canada — plus some Gaza beaches and Boers from South Africa. The first weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency were downright surreal in terms of foreign

The end of neoliberal globalization is giving a boost to neo-fascist crisis management – especially in the former “export world champion” Tomasz Konicz, 06.12.2024 It would be wrong, and reminiscent of the bad Marxist tradition, to postulate a one-sided causal inevitability between the development of the economic base and the political-ideological superstructure. Economic development, the

01.09.2024 You are speaking out against Jewish capital, gentlemen? Anyone who speaks out against Jew capital, gentlemen, is already a class fighter, even if he doesn’t know it. You are against Jew capital and want to fight the stock market jobbers. That’s right. Kick the Jew capitalists down, hang them from the lamppost, trample them

The broad implementation of artificial intelligence systems in the labor society will push the dynamic internal contradiction of capital to the extreme. August 3, 2024 „The Internet? Is that thing still around?“Homer Simpson, December 1999 [1] The euphoria was followed by misery and disappointment. The introduction of the Internet at the turn of the millennium

Control, marginalization, immobilization or counterinsurgency – AI systems are predestined to manage the global crisis of capital. August 1, 2024 A particularly effective method of the endangered genre of subversive science fiction horror is to exaggerate the given late capitalist reality only slightly, to transfer only a few moments of society into the realm of

The technological surge triggered by the AI industry will revolutionize the production of ideology in the core societies of the world system. July 7, 2024 He “lost everything” that made up his job, complained a 3D artist on Reddit around a year ago after AI software found its way into his company. The graphic artist,

On the way to a nuclear exchange of blows: According to Slovak Prime Minister Fico, NATO states are discussing forms of direct military intervention in Ukraine. June 13, 2024 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico abandoned all diplomatic restraint on Monday. The leader, who is considered pro-Russian, said shortly before the European summit in Paris that