Status Updates From American Foreign Policy and...

“Since the Second World War, the ideology of American foreign policy has always been predominantly Wilsonian in register—‘making the world safe for democracy’ segueing into a ‘collective security’ that would in due course become the outer buckler of ‘national security’. In substance, its reality has been unswervingly Hamiltonian—the pursuit of American supremacy, in a world made safe for capital”

“The US state would henceforward act, not primarily as a projection of the concerns of US capital, but as a guardian of the general interest of all capitals, sacrificing—where necessary, and for as long as needed—national gain for international advantage, in the confidence of ultimate pay-off.”

He’s cooking folks

Pretty straightforward and self-explanatory so far. Definitely a must read and pairs nicely with the case studies in Blum’s “Killing Hope” and the macroview of financialization/financial warfare in Hudson’s “Superimperialism”.