The history of the world over the last 500 years has been marked by the emergence of Europe, whose explorers triggered the third wave of globalisation. In this wave, what we now call the West ushered in the “industrial revolution”, driven by the capitalist mode of production, which enabled it to establish its domination of the world with unspeakable brutality. First by inflicting this violence on its own populations, then by plundering the world through the extortion of wealth, massacres and genocides. And let us not forget that it resolved its internal contradictions through two absolutely monstrous world wars. Finally, it imposed neoliberal capitalist globalisation on the planet, which is the modern form of its domination. This contradictory process has combined astonishing material progress with boundless violence. To take just one example, a recent study by The Lancet, the world’s leading medical journal, shows that Western policies, whether directly military or economic, have caused the deaths of 32 million people since the end of the Second World War.  It would be ridiculous to reduce Western civilisation to this murderous record, but it is equally ridiculous to deny it and fail to recognise its fundamental nature. We are seeing the consequences of this at work in the global crisis we are facing at the beginning of the 21st century... Continuez la lecture de ce post gratuitement dans l'App Substack
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