This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

At the end of September, political theorist Ilya Metveev joined the critique editorial board, of which I am a member, to present his

ideas about imperialism in the 21st century. I moderated that enlightening discussion,

and I'm now bringing it to you at Jackman Radio. Matt Veyen examines the emerging era of

inter-imperialist rivalry and asks, what's really driving the strategies

of Russia, China, and the United States? China has risen as a manufacturing superpower with

national capital tightly fused to the party state. Russia, in a neo-fascist, turn, has shattered

the global free trade order with its invasion of Ukraine.

The United States, still unmatched in military and financial power,

confronts both as rivals, even as Trump's second administration dismantles the alliances

and institutions that once underpinned American primacy.

What theories of imperialism can help us make sense of this fractured world order? METVEVE argues that to grasp today's disjointed global system,

we must reckon not only with the structural contradictions of capitalism, but also with the

sovereign decisions and ideological projects of political elites.

We'll bring you this discussion when our program returns in just a moment.

It's in our phones. It's in our laptops, it's in the cars we drive, the planes we fly,

and the algorithms that shape our world, and it generates obscene profits for Boeing,

Uber, and Open AI while putting everyone else in harm's way.

The new book, Fatal Abstraction, Why the Managerial Class

loses control of software, explains why the tech industry keeps making oppressive,

exploitative, dangerous software. Written by Daryl Campbell, a contributor to The Verge,

it argues that a revolution of tech workers must stop our looming technological

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