The BRICS have changed the balance of forces, but they will not by themselves change the World: The Thirty Third Newsletter (2023) | MR Online
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Despite the limitations of the BRICS project, it is clear that the increase in South-South trade and the development of Southern institutions (for development financing, for instance) challenges the neo-colonial system even if it does not immediately transcend it.

Archived link.

Great piece by Vijay Prashad that talks a little bit about BRICS’ history and then about its current state.

Anti-imperialists come to hear a lot about BRICS since it is mentioned often in our circles but news articles are often understandably narrower in scope. This essay on the other hand paints a slightly bigger picture.

  • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see it as just a balancing of forces-- I genuinely think, if shrewdly handled by the burgeoning cropping of anti-western governments in western Afrika, could prove to be the fulcrum that leads to the tipping of the scale that changes the world. More Eritreas, more Malis, more Burkina Fasos, more Nigers. I think this is the start of something glorious-- but “not by themselves changing the world” is a rational expectation-temperer.