Marxism and World Politics Contesting Global Capitalism 1st Edition by Alexander Anievas ISBN 0415478030 978-0415478038

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ISBN 10: 0415478030
ISBN 13: 978-0415478038
Author: Alexander Anievas

This book brings together internationally-distinguished scholars from History, Philosophy, Development Studies, Geography, and International Relations (IR) to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics.

Offering original and stimulating analyses of subjects traditionally at the forefront of Marxist studies of world politics, the collection also considers issues which have yet to be fully explored within a number of disciplines. Examining a wide array of topics ranging from the imperialism-globalization debate, the connections between social structures and foreign relations, the role of identity and imperialist norms in world politics, to the relationship between Marxist and Realist IR Theory, the contributors seek to further theoretical discussions and their implications for emancipatory radical politics. These contributions are structured around two major themes:

• The relationship between capitalist modernity and the states-system in explaining the changing patterns of inter-state conflict and cooperation;

• The debates within Marxist and IR discourses on the theoretical significance of ‘the international’, covering topics including uneven and combined development and passive revolution.

An impressive collection that seeks to advance dialogue and research, Marxism and World Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of IR, International Political Economy, Political Science, and Historical Sociology.

Marxism and World Politics Contesting Global Capitalism 1st Table of contents:

Part I The geopolitics of capitalist modernity

1 Does capitalism need the state system?

Introduction

The debate on imperialism renewed

Geopolitical competition and the logic of capital

Changing patterns of interstate competition

Notes

2 The changing ‘logics’ of capitalist competition

Introduction

Does capitalism need a states system?

The poverty of Marxist imperialism theory

Capitalism and geopolitics: one, two or many ‘logics’?

Notes

3 Western hegemony and transnational capital A dialectical perspective

The heartland-contender state structure of modern world politics

Productive forces and social relations

Contradictory unity and differential development

The class format of global governance

The transnational ruling class in council—the Istanbul Bilderberg Conference 2007

Notes

4 Beyond the theory of imperialism Global capitalism and the transnational state

Introduction

The myth of national economies and the reality of transnational capital

Reification and theoreticism in ‘new imperialism’ theories: the case of David Harvey

Global capitalism and the transnational state apparatus

The crisis of global capitalism and the US state

Concluding comments: imperialism and the extensive and intensive enlargement of capitalism

Notes

5 Many capitals, many states Contingency, logic or mediation?

Introduction: three imaginary futures

States as moments in a ‘mediated totality’

‘The separation of the economic and the political under capitalism’

Capitalists, state managers and politicians

Competitive accumulation: the essence of capitalism

Capitalist competition versus perpetual peace

Conclusion

6 Post-Fordist capitalism and imperial power Toward a neo-Gramscian view

Introduction

Capitalism and geopolitics

US hegemony and Fordist geopolitics

Domination in the name of liberty: the paradox of imperial consent

Rationalizing double standards: ideologies of American exceptionalism

Enlisting the working class: post-Fordist capitalism and blue-collar patriotism

Conclusion

Notes

7 To be or not to be a non-reductionist Marxist: Is that the question?

Introduction

The ‘relative autonomy approach’: Or, the cul-de-sac of ‘modified base/superstructuralism’?

‘Two-logics pluralism’: or, the ‘illusion of the realist moment?’

‘Collapsed base-superstructuralism’: or, the ‘illusion of the nonreductionist promised land?’

Resuscitating and confronting the obscured subliminal underpinnings of Marxist anti-economism

Notes

8 Industrial development and international political conflict in contemporary capitalism

Introduction

Industrial competition and necessary political tensions arising from it

Increasing returns to scale

Learning economies and the role of the public sector

Implications for analysis of contemporary capitalism

Intra-core tensions and mitigating possibilities

Evidence of tensions and mercantilism within the core

What of economic globalization?

Explaining international political tensions and their limits

The international division of labour as a power hierarchy/process

Forces of production and capitalist relations of production

Marx’s critical edge

Conclusion

Notes

Part II Marxism and ‘the international’

9 Uneven and combined development The social-relational substratum of ‘the international’? An exchange of letters

Introduction

Brighton, 6 June 2006

Dear Alex,

Dear Justin,

Dear Alex,

The danger of general abstractions

Limits of a mode of production approach

The status of realism

Dear Justin,

The uses of the transhistorical

The limits of the value analogy

The virtues of realism

10 Capitalism, uneven and combined development, and the transhistoric

Introduction

The specificities of capitalist social relations and political forms

Understanding the capitalist state system: multiplicity and diversity

Marx’s method and the theoretical status of uneven and combined development

Conclusion

Notes

11 Approaching ‘the international’ Beyond Political Marxism

Introduction

Political Marxism and the international

Social property relations and the basis/superstructure problem3

Capitalism and the states system

Socially uneven and geopolitically combined development

Uneven and combined development: from Trotsky to Rosenberg and back again

Extensions of uneven and combined development

Capitalist and pre-capitalist forms of uneven and combined development

Diffusion, articulation, combination

Conclusion: what’s at stake in ‘the international’ debate?

Notes

12 The geopolitics of passive revolution

Introduction

Passive revolution and ‘Americanism and Fordism’

Americanism and Fordism

New ‘north-south’ questions of uneven development

The state in Africa?

Passive revolutions of capital in Latin America?

Conclusion: capitalism as a universal concept with specific geographical seats

Notes

13 Politics and the international

Introduction

Political order

Distributed force

Coercive rule

Legitimate authority

Territory and collective action

Conclusion

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