While the American empire blows its brains out against the wailing wall, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss his article "Economics of Empire". Empire brutally subjugates the periphery but it deploys more nuanced tactics to exploit the core. Beset on all sides by rightoid slaves, leftoid hustlers, and vile third positionist demons dancing to the tune the imperial elites have selected, can we build a durable anti-imperialism for the masses using the occluded Fourth Position of Scientific Connllyism-De Gaullism-Dengism?

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