What is Imperialism?

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course approaches the world-shaping forces of capitalism by tracking the concept of imperialism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This brings several continents into focus, and concentrates our attention on dynamics of labor, race, unequal exchange, development and underdevelopment, crises of accumulation, and finance capital. Our reading equally highlights past and present sequences of anti-imperialist struggle in both the Global South and Global North, including examples of resistance, rebellion, armed struggle, and militant organizing.