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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

blogs.mediapart.fr, 22.06.2022 The economic and ecological crises of capital have long been intertwined. This can be seen not least in the heat-induced mass deaths among poor and vulnerable sections of the population – and not only in the Global South, as Tomasz Konicz argues in his contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism.” Link:

Berliner Gazette, 22.07.2022 Extreme debt is getting out of hand, especially in Africa and the Global South at large, where economic and climate crises are intertwined, fueling each other and making it clear that the inner and outer limits of capital have been reached, as Tomasz Konicz argues in his contribution to the BG text

Exit! in English, 07.02.2022 The Centers of The World System Discover Islamofascism As a Repressive Instrument of Crisis Management in The Periphery Talk to the Taliban? Mrs. Merkel can’t do that quickly enough. While panicked people clinging to planes taking off plunge to their deaths at Kabul airport, while IS Islamists blow up dozens of

konicz.info, 14.01.2022 Why does capitalism fail to implement sustainable climate policies despite the escalating ecological crisis? For three decades, policymakers have promised to address the climate crisis. For three decades, global emissions of greenhouse gases have continued to climb, giving rise to the suspicion that the capitalist world system is incapable of reducing CO2 emissions

znet, 29.12.2021 The end of the financialization of capitalism looks confusingly similar to the beginning. In recent weeks, a great retro fever has broken out in the business press. In the face of rapidly rising inflation and a mixed economic outlook, memories of the stagflation period in the 1970s are increasingly being evoked,1 when anemic

konicz.info, 11/15/2021 The end of the financialization of capitalism looks confusingly similar to the beginning. In recent weeks, a great retro fever has broken out in the business press. In the face of rapidly rising inflation and a mixed economic outlook, memories of the stagflation period in the 1970s are increasingly being evoked,1 when anemic

Telepolis, 11.10.2019 Counter-terrorism expert Chuck Pfarrer, former Commander at SEAL Team SIX, about the situation in Syria and the United States Chuck Pfarrer is a former Assault Element Commander at SEAL Team SIX, and a veteran of more than 150 combat operations in the Middle East. He has written Op Ed for the New York

Telepolis, 25.08.2018 An Interview about conspiracy theories and the tactics of the communication guerilla with the authors of the Wu Ming collective Question: There are strange things going on in the within the social networks inhabited by right wing groups, like 4chan – even considering the low standards of the extreme right. A bizarre conspiracy

anfenglish.com, 21.02.2018 ‚This is, what Rovaja stands for: An progressive alternative to the hell capitalism, torn by his escalating inner contradictions, is descending into”, according to author and journalist Tomasz Konicz. Link: https://anfenglish.com/news/afrin-must-not-fall-25041

UPPER SILESIAN ANTI-FASCISTS IN SPAIN Nearly 200 inhabitants of Upper Silesia fought in the civil war in Spain. Although their region was then divided between Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany, they did not surrender to nationalist propaganda, but chose a common struggle – for democracy and social rights. Many of them died in Spain, many felt

Znet, 18.01.2015 1. What is the origin of the Pegida movement, how was it born? What is the meaning of the fact it is developing in Dresden, a war-torn city that is socialist/stalinist. Continuity with History? Pegida started around 13 Weeks ago with marches of several thousand people, but these marches grew very quickly. There

Link: freembtranslations.net [This introduction to Tomasz Konicz’ ‚Aufbruch ins Ungewisse. On the Search for Alternatives to the Permanent Capitalist Crisis,” 2014 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.heise.de/tp/druck/mb/artikel/43/43479/1.html.] Tremendous obstacles stand in the way of conceiving alternatives to the permanent capitalist crisis. The watertight density of capitalist socialization, the all-persuasiveness of the market