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The Structural Crisis of the Neocolonial World-System

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This chapter provides an analysis of the sustained structural crisis of the world-system, which showed its first symptoms in the 1970s, and which has resulted from the fact that the world-system has reached the geographical limits of the earth. It notes the symptoms of the crisis: the elimination of the gold standard; the US double deficit; neoliberal economic policies; factory relocation; escalating financial speculation; and new wars of aggression by the core powers, led by the USA. This chapter also observes the relative economic decline of the USA and its increasing reliance on military action. It maintains that the US economic and military attacks on the Third World violate the rules of neocolonial domination, which it developed during the period 1933 to 1965.

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McKelvey, C. (2018). The Structural Crisis of the Neocolonial World-System. In: The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62160-9_6

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