“From the standpoint of the independent Left, it appears that the BRICS bloc degenerated into a fast-growing yet often-stumbling network of subimperial powers that have generally served the interests of international capital and mainly obeyed — and indeed legitimized — neoliberal multilateral institutions. This is especially true in the areas of international commerce, investment, finance, and climate management.”
“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