Jamie Merchant gives a presentation at Woodbine space about his new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline, arguing that the basic causes of a world spinning out of control rest squarely in the decline of a stagnating capitalist economy. He discusses the global crisis in liberal democracy and the prospects for building a movement against the rightward trajectory towards economic collapse and World War.
Jamie is a Chicago-based writer, contributor to Brooklyn Rail, Baffler, and In These Times, and a member of the Chicago chapter of the Independent Labor Club.
Check out the book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo239347803.html
Excerpt: https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/field-notes/Endgame-Finance-and-the-Close-of-the-Market-System/