Two people have done more to call a spade a spade and declare the USA to be an empire, these being Michael Parenti and Peter Dale Scott. Let me rephrase that, these are the two people who have called it that without advocating its expansion.
Recently Parenti wrote an article on American empire and the misdiagnosis of this particular strain of capitalism by some as just a matter of prestige and not as a necessary element of the capitalist expanding market. He covers the topic in a concise, yet detailed way here.
During a satire upon America’s new ‘teabaggers’ movement, HBO’s Bill Maher pronounces ‘We have an empire’ and discusses the absurdity of huge military spending and American capitalist economic crimes upon its own people. I say ‘its own people’, but capitalism has no peopel apart from those who invest in it. Solidarity with someone in your own class means more than any silly nationalist notion based on a flag and a song.
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