THE ABSENT GEOPOLITICS OF PURE CAPITALISM
<p class="first" id="d334661e59">The first Marxist theories of capitalist geopolitics emerged in the early 20th century as theories of imperialism and uneven and combined development. They were also the first theories of capitalist geopolitics. While...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2010-09-01
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| Series: | World Review of Political Economy |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.2307/41931883 |
| Summary: | <p class="first" id="d334661e59">The first Marxist theories of capitalist geopolitics emerged in the early 20th century
as theories of imperialism and uneven and combined development. They were also the
first theories of capitalist geopolitics. While they explained the intensification
of imperialism through new interpénétrations of politics and economics in national
states and economies, the revival of Marxist thinking about capitalist geopolitics
in the English-speaking world in recent decades suffers from a pure, purely economic,
conception of capitalism, uncontaminated by politics, by nation-states. It is, as
a consequence, also a cosmopolitan conception of capitalism. In it the very object
of study disappears. This article argues that it does so because so many Marxists
have come to share the cosmopolitan biases of mainstream thinking by accepting the
discourses of "globalization" and "empire" and shows how this is so in the case of
two pioneers of the recent revival of Marxist geopolitical thinking, Justin Rosenberg
and Benno Teschke.
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| ISSN: | 2042-891X 2042-8928 |