... coronavirus pandemic will have developed its own narrative about the fight against COVID-19. There will be heroes, villains, noble feats and tragic mistakes. But the truly era-defining war of “coronavirus narratives” is currently unfolding between China and the West, headed by the United States. The side that can convince the world that its strategy for overcoming the coronavirus is the most effective will at the same time stake its claim to global leadership in the post-corona world. And the side ...
... within the previous one. This one was illogical. The entire shift of paradigm was based on the assumption that the strength of socialism and the world correlation of forces was such that imperialism would not dare renege on its commitments and become openly ... ... was the view that the USSR could go it alone with its allies within the socialist camp, even if there was no consensus with China, in the teeth of objections from China and in the face of active antipathy from China. China too would make this mistake ...
... economy? Why is the plaintive hope that the absence of an ideological dimension to the competition between the US, Russia and China, should restore harmonious dialogue, essentially utopian?
Zachary Paikin:
A Few Words in Defence of Francis Fukuyama
The ... ... War 11 imperialist systems consolidated under US leadership, there could only be wars between the two systems, capitalism and socialism, but not within capitalism. In his last published work, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR” (1951), Stalin ...
