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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

The crisis in the construction industry shows that the Chinese state’s usual methods of dealing with economic problems are less and less effective. jungle world, 15.02.2024 A Hong Kong court has ordered the liquidation of China’s heavily indebted second-largest real estate group, Evergrande. The crisis in the construction industry shows that the Chinese state’s usual

The German right wing liberal FDP has successfully sabotaged the European Supply Chain Law Tomasz Konicz, 22.06.2024 Germany’s business associations have once again been able to assert their interests at the EU level. After lengthy negotiations, the EU’s Supply Chain Law, which was due to be voted on by the Council of the European Union

The crisis of capital is driving masses of voters to the AfD – even if influential capital managers publicly polemicize against right-wing extremists. 04.05.2024, Tomasz Konicz, translated by OlIver Blackwell There are indeed fascistic definitions of fascism. These views, most prevalent among the brown decay products of old leftist currents, see fascism, which is often

German „Querfront“: Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party BSW will hardly harm the AfD, but will instead shift the political balance further to the right 04.05.2024, Tomasz Konicz, translated by OlIver Blackwell Above all, it is a legend that many Wagenknecht fans use to talk themselves into joining the Querfront: The entire phenomenon is purportedly directed against

Will stagnation be a permanent condition? An outlook for the world economy after the end of the globalized financial bubble economy. 29.04.2024 Tomasz Konicz, translation by OlIver Blackwell The speculative air is slowly leaking out of the global valorization machine – but hardly anyone seems to have noticed. At the beginning of 2024, the World

Ukraine will lose the war against Russia in the medium term – the only question is how high the price will be 28.04.2024 Tomasz Konicz, translation by OlIver Blackwell How bad is the situation in Ukraine? Well, at the end of November, the White House felt compelled to deny reports that the United States and

How is the United States managing to overtake the eurozone economically? And will this trend continue? 27.04.2024 The United States seems to be leaving the eurozone behind economically. In recent weeks, the leading U.S. and UK business newspapers, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)[1] and the Financial Times (FT),[2]  have focused on the widening economic gap

What’ll it be? A brief overview of the contradictions of capitalist crisis policy using the United States as an example Tomasz Konicz, 06.03.2024. Translation by OlIver Blackwell It’s party time! The U.S. stock markets recently set off a veritable display of fireworks.[1] On November 3, U.S stock markets closed out their best trading week of

How Leftist German Opportunism Domesticated the Radical Climate Movement Tomasz Konicz, 04.03.2024 The German left has arrived late to the climate crisis – and is still dragging anachronistic ideological baggage with it. Almost every current of the same stock-conservative left that for decades ridiculed or trivialized the climate crisis has now switched to the inflationary

How did the central banks manage to stabilize the financial system for the time being after the “bank quake” in March 2023? And what are the prospects for this form of crisis management? February 29, 2024, Tomasz Konicz The last banking crisis[1] that shook the financial system in March 2023 has long since disappeared from

The wave of anti-fascist protests in Germany represents the last chance to prevent a fascist crisis regime. 02.02.2024 The currently unfolding anti-fascist mass movement seems to be a liberation from the leaden heaviness of years of fascization. Like a mass awakening, millions of people are realizing how far the New Right has already spread into

The fight against the „authoritarian revolt“ of the New Right has a central role to play in the full-blown systemic crisis. A German perspective. Tomasz Konicz, 31.12.2023 Where do all the rightwing populists and right-wing extremists that are increasingly dominating Germany’s and Europe’s political landscape come from? Contrary to popular belief, they do not come

The election victory of self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is being celebrated by right-wing libertarians around the world. This neoliberal extremism is successful because other ways of tackling the worsening crisis have failed – not just in Argentina. jungle world, 14.12.2023 (slightly updated here) Finally a revolutionary that the German bourgeoisie can get on board with!

Escape to Mars, upload to the cloud or retreat to the fallout shelter? How the super-rich are preparing for the apocalypse 27.11.2023 In 2017, social scientist and media theorist Douglas Mark Rushkoff received an offer he could hardly refuse. It was by far the highest fee he had been offered for a lecture to an