Author: Michael Pröbsting
Michael Pröbsting is a political activist and writer, living in Austria. He has published numerous writings in several languages including Rosa Luxemburg—‘Ich bin ein Land der unbeschränkten Möglichkeiten’ (1999), The Credit Crunch—A Marxist Analysis (2008), and Cuba’s Revolution Sold Out? (2013). He has written on China’s transformation into an imperialist power more extensively in his book The Great Robbery of the South (2013). A German translation of this book was published by Promedia in the spring of 2014. He is the editor of the website The Communists.
Michael Pröbsting criticizes distortion of the Marxist theory of imperialism today, which is used to justify support for imperialist states such as China and Russia.
It is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for
One of the most important issues of our time is the intensifying rivalry between the imperialist Great Powers: the United States, China, the EU, Russia, and Japan. Diplomatic rows, sanctions, trade wars, military tensions, and, ultimately, major wars now loom
One of the most important issues in world politics today is China’s rise as a great imperialist power. Most left-wing writers consider China either as a “socialist country,” a “deformed workers’ state,” or as a “dependent capitalist country” exploited by Western monopolies.
