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its a topic i nominally understand but is honestly high fantasy to me whenever i try to understand it deeper and i think i need to read like a whole thing specifically dedicated to the concept to really for once wrap my head around it. ive seen a lot of debate on things like wages, super-exploitation, and currency differences that id really like to be able to settle in my head. thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Michael Hudson’s Super-Imperialism, plus his blog and the podcast Geopolitical Economy Report.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I recommend this, read it a few months ago. It's very readable, pretty short (like a hundred pages or so) and has a list of further reading at the back. It's not The Theory™, it's just, well, an introduction and overview of what the theory entails

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I liked Zak Cope's book 'Divided World, Divided Class' it was much more comprehensible to me. He writes in a more colloquial way than Amin. It's a great book if you're not doing intensive study.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is also Imperialism in the Twenty First Century by John Smith that is great but it is not easy to read.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's so funny to me that all the big leftist theorists have exotic names and then there's Mr. Default Name himself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's probably a pseudonym