Re: [OPE] Britain--parasitic and decaying capitalism: A comment

 Paul:

The suggestion that the US intervention in Afghanistan is for economic motives
of capital export is total joke.

 Dogan:
so, then, the whole US administration must be joking and all imperialist countries involved and competing against one another in the region must playing a children's game. Remember, just before the change of Bush administration we stood very close to a war in the region and comentators said it was a conflict that brought us very close to war between great powers.

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Von: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
An: Outline on Political Economy mailing list <ope@lists.csuchico.edu>
Verschickt: Mi., 30. Dez. 2009, 0:36
Thema: RE: [OPE] Britain--parasitic and decaying capitalism: A comment

The social relation was exported no question about that, but my point was to
critique the idea that the export of capital was a way of absorbing excess
surplus value. It would be more realistic to see late 19th century imperialism
as relating to the export of labour. Recall the demographic profile of Germany
and the UK as population surplus areas. Canada, Australia and South Africa were
sites for exporting surplus population. William, left with the deserts of the
Kalahari, the swamps of the Ovango coveted areas more suitable for white
settlement -- hence the ambitions for colonisation in South America, from which
followed the need to challenge the Monroe doctrine, and fromwhich followed the
contingency plans to invade the USA to enforce claims to Venezuela.

It is worth reading the tin. IN 1900 the leading states were all quite open
about being empires with territorial claims. The situation today is totally
different.

The suggestion that the US intervention in Afghanistan is for economic motives
of capital export is total joke. The only capitalist power exporting capital on
any scale to Afghanistan is China not the USA. Who is developing the mineral
reserves, copper mines there -- China, not the USA.
USA only invaded Afghanistan after 9/11 as a cack handed attempt to strike back
at those who attacked it.

Iraq is a rather different matter, here supplies of credit from the Saudis was
probably the motivating factor, but that does not fit in to the old analysis of
imperialism either.

I feel DY is attempting to apply to the 21st century an analysis that was at
best a partial fit to the early 20th.
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Subject: RE: [OPE] Britain--parasitic and decaying capitalism: A comment

> How real then is the idea of capital export as underlying even late
> 19th century imperialism.

Hi Paul C:

If you think of the export of capital as an export and expansion of a social
relation (most especially, the class relation between capitalists and
wage-workers) then it's quite real (but not without its contradictory aspects).

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