ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the crisis and impasse as global historical situations. We argue that both are essentially inherent to capitalist imperialism, and our current situations bears conditions in which we are facing both the impasse of crisis and the crisis of impasse. This can be manifested in the crisis of democracy, and national and global monopoly capital, until the crisis and impasse of left and internationalism. Eurocentrism and nihilistic Western left puritanism only exacerbate people’s struggle to move beyond the impasse and crisis. On the other hand, the march toward a multipolar world is irreversible, but we require a new internationalism. Passive counter-hegemonic delinking and global structural reform is not enough, and we need a new organization capable of translating the crisis of our “globalized monopoly finance capitalism” into a popular revolt, in changing the balance of forces at national and global levels, favoring proletarian hegemony and revolution. Hence, a new international organization needs both multipolarity and internationalism, and work on the basis of these two maxims and correlations of forces between North–South. However, I argue, the Global South will remain a spark-fire, center of global political conflict, resistance, and revolution, of multipolar and internationalism projects.
