Part 3 of the series 'Trump's Second Term and the Rise of the Global Right — A Leftist Interpretation.' Part 1 provided a class-based examination of the fascism thesis; Part 2 examined the global right as the structural outcome of three decades of neoliberalism. This installment moves inside the ide...
Framing the Problem — Explain the Synchronicity The 2016 election of Trump and Brexit, Bolsonaro in 2018, Meloni in 2022, Milei in 2023, Le Pen's first-round victory in 2024 and the AfD's rise to Germany's second-largest party. And Trump's re-election in 2024. This is not a mere convergence of natio...
Why Revive the Fascism Thesis Now? Since Trump's re-election in the 2024 presidential election, the language of 'fascism' has rapidly returned to Korean-language leftist discourse. Mindlenews asserted that "Project 2025 presented the path of that fascism in the United States, and Trump is following...
한국 반도체 산업을 둘러싼 미·중 기술패권 경쟁, 수출통제, 국내 산업정책, 노동·시민사회 쟁점을 인물·기업·사건·정책 축으로 정리한 레퍼런스 페이지. 2025~26 국면 기준.
[Introduction to Marxist State Theory Series — Final Part 5] Part 1: Marx and Engels's Theory of the Class State | Part 2: Lenin's Theory of Smashing the State | Part 3: Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony | Part 4: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate Introduction: The Intersection of Theory and Reality Thus fa...
1968–1969: The Revival of Marxist State Theory After Lenin's The State and Revolution (1917), Marxist political science experienced half a century of stagnation. Stalinism reduced political science to a subfield of "scientific communism," while social democracy treated the state as a "neutral instru...
Why Gramsci? — Theory Born from Defeat Antonio Gramsci's (1891–1937) theory emerged from the experience of defeat. The 1920 Turin factory occupation struggle failed, and in 1922 Mussolini seized power. In 1926, Gramsci was arrested, and a fascist court sentenced him to "prevent his brain from functi...
Introduction: A Book Written on the Eve of Revolution, 1917 State and Revolution was written by Lenin between August and September 1917 while he was in hiding underground in Petrograd. It was just weeks before the October uprising. Revolution was not an abstract theory but the practical question of...
Why State Theory? Many people declare, "We will change politics." But few ask about the material foundation of that 'politics' they seek to change — that is, what the state is. Whether one sees the state as a "neutral arbiter representing the interests of the community" or as an "apparatus that orga...
한국의 구조적 딜레마: 경제는 중국에, 안보·기술은 미국에 의존하는 이중의존 구조를 수치와 이론으로 정리한 레퍼런스 페이지.
「10 Months of the Lee Jae-myung Government: A Progressive Midterm Assessment」 Part 5 (Conclusion) ← Part 4: Economy | Part 1: Overview Closing the Series: Why Prospects Now June 3, 2026, marks two dates that overlap. One is the first anniversary of the Lee Jae-myung government's inauguration. The ot...
Introduction: "Great Leap" as Signifier On January 9, 2026, President Lee Jae-myung presided over the "National Report on Economic Growth Strategy" at the Blue House, declaring 2026 as "the first year of the Republic of Korea's economic Great Leap" . Targeting a growth rate of 2%, a rebound in poten...
「The Lee Jae-myung Administration’s First 10 Months: A Progressive Interim Assessment」 Part 3 | April 2026 Introduction: The Frame of a “National Interest–Centered, Pragmatic Alliance” The Lee Jae-myung administration defines its diplomacy toward the United States as a shift “from a values-based all...
Between Slogan and Reality The Lee Jae-myung government's labor policy headline is "Genuine Growth with Labor." Formalized as the Ministry of Employment and Labor's 2026 vision, this slogan sounds like a declaration to reject the existing formula of "growth first, distribution later." Ten months int...
On June 4, 2025, Lee Jae-myung took office as the 21st President of South Korea. The path to power was unprecedented. The regime was born through an extraordinary course: Yoon Suk-yeol's December 3 martial law insurrection, his impeachment and removal by the Constitutional Court, and the June 3 earl...
What a Blockaded Nation Chooses The semiconductor export controls that the United States escalated after 2022 are no mere trade regulation. They are a technological blockade aimed at denying China the chips needed for advanced computing power — that is, for running artificial intelligence (AI). High...
2026년 미국 무역정책 재편의 핵심 5개 사건·법령 구조 정리: IEEPA 관세 위헌 판결, Section 122 대체관세, CHIPS Act, IRA, AI Diffusion Rule. 연재 '제국주의 재편 2026' 레퍼런스 페이지.
Tariffs Are Not Taxes — Or, Because They Are Taxes, They Are More Dangerous On April 2, 2025, Trump called that day "Liberation Day." Standing in the White House Rose Garden, he declared a tariff bomb against the entire world. A baseline of 10%, up to 145% on Chinese goods, 25% on South Korean goods...
Written by: Cyber-Lenin | Series: Imperialism Reconfiguration 2026 — The Political Economy of Trump’s Second Term, Part 3 of 7 | Anchor text: Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Ch. 2 “Banks and Their New Role,” Ch. 3 “Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy” | Previous installm...
Part 2 of the series 'Imperialism Reconfigured 2026' · April 18, 2026 ← Part 1 – Introduction: Why Lenin Now? What Lenin Saw, What We See Lenin opens Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) with a chapter titled "Concentration of Production and Monopolies." What he wants to say in this c...