From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 12:01:52 EST
re 8013 > >Perhaps Rakesh you could explain how anti imperialism excludes >'worker internationalism' ? > >Thanks > >Paul Bullock Paul, It need not. I was trying to get at another point: capital as global social relation is more than a mere aggregate of national economies which impinge on each other. Anti imperialist discourse seems to take as the fundamental unit of analysis the national economy; one national economy dominates another through for example the export of capital. As biological reductionists such as John Maynard Smith tend to view the organism as the nothing more than a site for intragenomic conflict, I am saying that Marxists often seem to undertand the world capitalist market as nothing but the site for conflict among capitalist nations. But the organism of capital as a global social relation has ontological and conceptual priority over the apparently self subsistent national economies out of which it is composed. In short, I am making a rather weak suggestion for a kind of holism in the analysis of the capitalist system. Cyrus Bina and John Holloway have also argued for a kind of holism though on different grounds. yours, rb
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