Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic...

Prof. Hudson’s main thesis is absolutely devastating: he sets out to prove that economic/financial practices in Ancient Greece and Rome – the pillars of Western Civilization – set the stage for what is happening today right in front of our eyes: an empire reduced to a rentier economy, collapsing from within.

  • relay
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    1 year ago

    Is Pepe Escobar his real name? It seems to imply something funny.

    Also Michael Hudson is a Marxist-Lenninist now?

    • ihaveibs
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      1 year ago

      Not really sure where Hudson falls. I had always heard he was a Trot but I’ve seen him recently making fun of Trots.

      • acabjones
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        1 year ago

        He definitely grew up a Trotskyite. His dad took the family to Mexico to spend time with the man himself, and later was jailed on returning to the u.s.

        I’ve watched and read a fair amount of Hudson’s work and I can’t recall anything about revolutionary theory, so it’s tough to say whether he’s now an ML. The man has had a fascinating life though.