Inter-Imperialist Pact: Ukraine Between Trump and Putin (для видання «Internationalist Correspondence Bulletin», July 2025) [архів, 15.06.2025]
Ukrainian Socialist League – ISL Ukraine Inter-Imperialist Pact: Ukraine Between Trump and Putin The current phase of world capitalism has entered a stage of deep and systemic crisis, where contradictions between imperialist powers are sharpening, the old liberal world order is disintegrating, and oppressed peoples are once again becoming the object of cruel geopolitical transactions. Marxists have no reason to mourn the disappearance of the liberal paradigm of the world order — that old order was neither just nor ideal. It was based on the rules of global capitalist globalization, where Western imperialism as a whole (the “axis of good”) cloaked its economic interests in the liberal rhetoric of “defending human rights,” “fighting for democracy,” and the “free market.” The notion of a “free market” was artificial from the beginning, far removed from the real economic and trade relations of the imperialist era. Protectionism, quota-setting, and restrictive tariffs have ...