The current American project aimed at establishing dominance over the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but some features of liberal ideology have received a new and extremely dangerous development in it. If European political culture, since the French Revolution, has given a central place to the concepts of equality, The American state has evolved into a servant of the interests of capital, and only it. This model is now being implanted on a global scale. US imperialism will be characterized by a large degree of plunder of resources and destruction of the lives of poor people. The Virus of Liberalism shows how the American model of "low-intensity democracy" simultaneously erodes citizenship and class consciousness, replacing them with the idea of democratization as an ever-evolving process fundamental to progress of mankind.Samir Amin (b. 1931) is a renowned economist and political scientist. In 1960 - 1963 - Planning Advisor to the Government of Mali. From 1964 to 1979 - Professor at the University of Paris, universities in Poitiers, Dakar. In 1970 - 1980 - Director of the Institute of Economic Development and Planning in Dakar, then head of the project “The Future of Africa” (United Nations Institute for Scientific Research and Education, Dakar). Currently, he is the director of the international association of intellectuals from Africa, Asia and Latin America, the Third World Forum (Dakar). Author of more than 30 books, most of which have been translated into many languages of the world. Translation from English by Shogdi Nagib and Sergei Kastalsky.