Dmitry Pozhidaev
Russia’s peripheral imperialism: Class, ideology and war
Dmitry Pozhidaev contends that a state subordinately integrated into global capitalism can exercise imperial power over weaker neighbours, with Russia exemplifying this combination as an empire of the periphery.
‘The Capitalism of Good’: When the West becomes a victim of its own virtue
The West is increasingly abandoning the very practices said to define its moral superiority to preserve its global position, writes Dmitry Pozhidaev.
Militarised accumulation and the irrational rationality of the Iran war
At the level of the global economy, the Iran war appears deeply irrational. It has disrupted trade, raised energy prices and fed inflation. Yet it continues. Dmitry Pozhidaev explains why.
Czechia: When Communism became illegal again
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Like 85 years ago, under the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Communism is illegal in Czechia.
Trump’s peace, Lenin’s test: Class, empire and the price of a deal
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Reading Trump’s peace plan through Lenin’s method allows us to keep two planes in view at once: inter-imperialist rivalry and Ukraine’s national liberation struggle against an oppressor.
Russia’s 1917 October Revolution: A warning, an alternative, a challenge
Dmitry Pozhidaev — The October Revolution can be read as much as a symptom of a crisis of the world system as a project for its transformation that opened up a series of questions which remain unresolved even today.
Would Marx approve this year’s Nobel?
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Innovation won the Economic Nobel this year. But would Karl Marx approve? Partly.
Capital, power and war: The crisis of Russia’s peripheral accumulation regime
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Russia’s war in Ukraine is not simply a geopolitical miscalculation or ideological excess, but a structurally embedded feature of its capitalist accumulation regime.
From billions to trillions to traps: Rethinking development finance from the periphery
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Only by addressing structural imbalances and grounding finance in transformative, locally rooted practices, can development finance truly become developmental.
Should we expect a new world war? Two prison letters from Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky reflects on the possibilities of a new world war by drawing on historical analogies, analysing China’s place in the global system, and uncovering the deeper structural crises that underpin today’s international conflicts.
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Trump’s tariffs are less a blueprint for industrial renewal than a prelude to a new techno-nationalist order organised around capital control, technological dominance and regional economic blocs.
Reinvigorating Marx’s value theory to understand 21st century capitalism
Dmitry Pozhidaev — Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts’ new book offers a necessary counterpoint and challenge to dominant economic paradigms that continue to marginalise value theory.