This ‘Anti-Imperialist Summer School’ will consist of a series of teach-ins, held over the course of 6 weeks in May and June, which will provide a crash course in the shape and functioning of contemporary global imperialism.
The weekly sessions will take place Sundays from 4-6pm and run for approximately 90 minutes. All sessions will be hybrid—when you RSVP, scroll down on the confirmation page to get the Zoom link under “Instructions From Your Host”!
In the second session of MDC DSA’s Beyond the Bombs: Anti-Imperialist Summer School teach-in series, we will look at how the architecture of the global trade regime has been structurally designed to exploit the Global South and enrich the Global North, first through intentional underdevelopment during the era of colonial rule and then through the construction of a neocolonial trade system during the era of decolonization. We will explore how the United States’ hegemonic position at the head of this neocolonial system is upheld through the dominance of the US dollar, and how this dollar dominance enables the United States to impose unilateral sanctions as a devastating tool of imperialist violence and coercion. We will also examine the humanitarian impacts of sanctions regimes, and challenge the notion that sanctions are a ‘humane’ alternative to traditional warfare.