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Imperialism Reading Group - Super Imperialism, by Michael Hudson - Week 17 - June 9th to June 15th, 2025 (europe.pub)
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This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here.

Welcome to the seventeenth week of Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance! I'm reading the Third Edition.

For every week, I will write a summary of the chapter(s) read, for those who have already read the book and don't wish to reread, can't follow along for various reasons, or for those joining later who want to dive right in to the next book without needing to pick this one up too. I will post all my chapter summaries in this final thread, for access in one convenient location. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group.

This week, we will be reading Chapter 16: Monetary Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, which is approximately 15 pages.

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Imperialism Reading Group Ping!

The penultimate chapter. If you're behind, don't worry - we're going to have a few weeks on pause where you can catch up. Next week's thread will be the last for this book (as it's the epilogue chapter next week), and we can share thoughts and observations about the whole book there, as well as ask questions and hopefully get community answers to those questions.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

haha i caught up to you Care-Comrade i'm actually now wondering, do gulf state shenanigans connected to sports flows from "can't buy our shit, surplus countries, here buy golf or mma promotion".

also soviet importing grain, thanks corn-man-khrush. I wonder though why soviets were bothering with gas extraction and selling, whatever for?

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Seeing it all culminate and wrap up in this chapter really helped connect the dots. I got quite lost throughout a lot of the financial jargon, but this chapter helped put it all together. I definitely feel like I better understand why T-Bills are an important tool of modern US Imperialism whenever users over in the News Mega reference them.