How Sailors Broke Economics
Thomas Hodgskin and the origins of socialism
Alan Freeman
Researcher-activist, pluripolarist. Co-director of the websites of the International Manifesto Group, the Geopolitical Economy Research Group and New Cold War
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Economics is broken, and it cannot be fixed
What comes next?
What is Imperialism?
Part 3 of 'The Place of the Left in the Struggle to End Imperialism'
What is the 'Left'?
Part 2 of 'The Place of the Left in the Struggle to End Imperialism'
Can the Workers of the World Unite?
Part one of a three-part talk on 'The Place of the Left in the Struggle to End Imperialism' at Fudan University, Shanghai, 10 July 2026
Latin America, Birthplace of the Modern World
Slavery and Liberty in the cradle of capitalism
The Production and Use of Mental Objects
What exactly links 'creative', 'knowledge' and 'scientific' production?
A Chinese Giveaway
Deepseek, open source, and the AI 'race'
Where is Russia at?
A threeway conversation between Michael Hudson, Radhika Desai & Alan Freeman
THUCYDIDES TRAP OR CROESUS TRAP?
WHY THE USA’S DECLINE IS NOT CHINA’S FAULT
HUBRIS, COLUMBIAN EXCEPTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. WAR AGAINST THE WORLD
(西方傲慢的起源和北方例外论的命运) Imperialism, racism and the doctrine
America's Two-Party Dictatorship
Why the US goes to war abroad - and at home
West of Eden - video Presentation, St Petersburg 18 May
This link leads to a video in which I presented the earlier substack post ‘West of Eden’ at a session of the St Petersburg Economic Congress, organised by the De Witte Institute for New Economic Development.
Why does Capitalism Need War?
Video interview with Carlos Garrido of Midwestern Marx
What would Alfred Nobel have Thought?
War and Propaganda in the Nuclear Age
War and Progress
the Flawed Origins of American Greatness
West of Eden
a note on the Soviet Origins of American Economics