The Recovery of Marxist Economics: An Interview with Oscar Rojas
Oscar Rojas
Abstract
In this wide-ranging interview, Marxist economist Oscar D. Rojas Silva discusses the contemporary relevance of Marxist political economy amid the global transition from U.S. unipolarity to multipolarity. Rojas argues that the televised genocide in Palestine exposes both the moral bankruptcy of late capitalism and the maturation of the capitalist world system into its own crisis, from which a new stage — defined by the Freely Associated Producers (FAP) — is emerging. He situates the rise of the BRICS nations and the decline of U.S. financial hegemony as dialectical outcomes of capitalism’s internal contradictions, demonstrating how deindustrialization in the imperial core has fueled industrial growth in the periphery. The interview explores Mexico’s Fourth Transformation under López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum as a concrete example of this shift, linking “Mexican Humanism” to Marxist concepts of national sovereignty and communal production. Rojas also outlines the proposed Russia–Cuba–Mexico corridor as a vehicle for deepening multipolar integration and overcoming U.S. sanctions regimes. Concluding, he calls for a renewal of Marxist economics — centered on the law of value and dialectical method — as essential for building the material and ideological foundations of a post-capitalist, multipolar world.
Keywords
Marxist economics, multipolarity, Freely Associated Producers (FAP), Mexican Humanism, BRICS, global political economy
