A review from 2020 by a Western-centric Marxist economist and blogger might help us understand the situation of today’s global economy. Review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars Part 1 Part 2
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51