Gilbert Achcar: "The world situation is that of a new Cold War"
Gilbert Achcar talks to Thierry Labica on the occasion of the publication of his new book "The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine".
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Gilbert Achcar talks to Thierry Labica on the occasion of the publication of his new book "The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine".
“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”