In reply to John Millios' and Dimitris Sotiropoulos' contribution.
If I understand correctly, this perspective is quite close to my own. In
particular I wish to draw attention to the notion of a complex and unequal
'imperialist chain' that IMO extends to all present capitalist states -
though there seems to be some ambiguity on this issue in Millios' and
Sotiropulos' formulation, so I would appreciate their clarification.
Aside from this I raise only a few minor doubts and questions.
> Classical approaches to imperialism were based on a profound rejection
> of Marx’s conceptualization of ‘competition’.
Not sure how profound this rejection really was, since the classical
approaches understood monopoly capitalism as arising out of free
competition.
>The relationship of ‘interiority’
> between state and capital represents a twofold condition. On the one
> hand it precludes the self-diffusion of statist linkages into a global
> ‘empire’ that purportedly supervises homogeneously global economic
> structures. On the other hand it prevents capital that moves beyond
> the national borders from retaining a ‘certificate of origin’.
Not convinced that this 'certificate of origin' is really lost, or at least
completely lost. Consider for example the current dispute concerning
Google's operations in China.
> We find Bina’s reading of Marx’s concept of competition misleading. In
> fact, what he actually has in common with the classical Marxist
> theories is the rejection of the Marxian concept of social capital.
> This is an important differentiation from Marx’s analysis.
In my article I don't use of the concept of social capital either, but as
you describe it I do not see it as in any way contrary to the classical
theories of imperialism.
> In this sense, the only authentic ‘empire’
> is the imperialist chain in its entirety.
Is there a danger that this formulation concedes too much ground to the
notion of one global or transnational empire (in the Hardt and Negri sense,
etc)?
Paula
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