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<p>Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture since the French Revolution has given a central place to values of equality, the American state has developed to serve the interests of capital alone, and is now exporting this model throughout the world. American imperialism, Amin argues, will be far more barbaric than earlier forms of imperialism, pillaging natural resources and destroying the lives of the poor.</p> <p><b>The Liberal Virus</b> examines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political consequences. It shows how both citizenship and class consciousness are diluted in "low-intensity democracy" and argues instead for democratization as an ongoing process—of fundamental importance for human progress—rather than a fixed constitutional formula designed to support the logic of capital accumulation.</p> <p>In a panoramic overview, Amin examines the objectives and outcomes of American p

Who reads The Liberal Virus : Permanent War and the Americanization of the World?

Author

Amin, Samir., Samir Amin, Fikret Başkaya

Publisher

Aakar Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781583678237

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

3.74 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14