الأزمة الاقتصادية وعودة التاريخ

The 2008 economic collapse, which began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, led to the deepest global recession since the 1930s and caused tens of millions of job losses around the world. This collapse represented an opportunity for an unprecedented government bailout of the banks, as the world's governments, led by the newly elected Obama administration, pumped trillions of dollars to ensure the payment of the bad debts of financial speculators, while imposing 50% cuts in the wages of US auto workers, impoverishing a large segment of the population. David North, Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Network, believes that the rapid increase in social inequality, rooted in the historical crisis of the capitalist system, will lead to massive class conflicts internationally. The complete collapse of democratic systems, the bias of the current ruling elites towards the extreme right, the frantic pursuit of escalating wars, and the emergence of working class struggle confirm that history is still strongly present, and not at the end. These three lectures analyze the background and implications of the ongoing 2008 crisis, which arise from deep contradictions in the global capitalist system and center on increasingly global forms of production and the long-term decline of the United States.