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The removal of the neutral mask of "globalization" has revealed the many forms of raw imperialism that lie beneath, & presents the task of identifying clearly what the capitalist form of imperialism is about, particularly the US form that moved from multilateral neoliberalism to the unilateral militarism & neoconservatism of the current administration. Capitalist imperialism is analyzed as a contradictory fusion of the territorial logic by use of state power & capitalist logic that is derived from the market driven processes of accumulation in space and time. The irreducibility of these logics one to another as identified by Arendt are related the cumulative relation of property to the accumulation of power. Further analysis of the two logics identifies crises of over accumulation, & the chronic instability of democracy in the US. The disadvantages of Marx's assumptions underlying his general theory of capital accumulation are related to the dual neoliberal mantras of privatization & commodification. The move from consent to coercion in the Washington Consensus has shaped the politics focus increasingly on resistance to accumulation by dispossession as the nexus of inaction. Although imperialist projects of this sort rarely lasts, the short run results prove catastrophic if not suicidal for countries & peoples. In the face of this, it is imperative that the global justice movement join with an antiwar movement to set up different rules of international engagement. References. J. Harwell

Vor dem Hintergrund der Überakkumulationstheorie zeigt der Verfasser, wie der Kapitalismus durch raumzeitliche Lösungsstrategien mit der Mobilisierung und Fixierung von Kapital versucht, Überschüsse von Arbeit und Kapital zu absorbieren. Dies kann erstens durch die zeitliche Verschiebung mittels Investitionen in langfristige Kapitalprojekte oder soziale Ausgaben, zweitens durch eine räumliche Verlagerung mittels Erschließung neuer Märkte, neuer Produktionskapazitäten und Ressourcen erfolgen. Der Imperialismus stellt so einen Versuch dar, den inneren Widersprüchen des Kapitalismus durch Expansion zu begegnen. Zur Koordinierung der Dynamik der Kapitalakkumulation im Kontext einer geographisch ungleichen Entwicklung leistet das Finanzsystem einen entscheidenden Beitrag. Der Kapitalismus des "Wall Street-Finanzministerium-IWF-Komplexes" stützt sich zunehmend auf die Enteignung und Aneignung von Vermögen. Ein wesentliches Kennzeichen des "neuen" Imperialismus sind die klassischen Mechanismen der ursprünglichen Akkumulation. Entsprechend stützt sich der "neue" Imperialismus mehr auf Militär- als auf Wirtschaftsmacht. Der Verfasser macht Konturen einer ungleichen kapitalistischen Entwicklung sichtbar, die zu einem beträchtlichen Teil auf Enteignungsprozessen basiert. (ICE2)

Exposes the underlying forces at work behind the shifts in US policies & politics & discusses the compulsions behind the projection of US power in the world as a "new imperialism." The author addresses the following questions: Why the US shift from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? What role does the economy play in pushing the US into foreign adventurism? What is the relationship between US militarism abroad & domestic politics? Adapted from the source document.

Explores the relationship between culture & capital, focusing on the commodification of certain types of cultural artifacts & events & the politicization of the "creative core" of artistic-cultural production & transmission by what Daniel Bell (1978) refers to as the "cultural mass." The significance of monopoly rents to the relationship between contemporary processes of economic globalization & special cultural forms or localities is discussed; the example is offered of the monopoly rent given by vineyards producing wines of "extraordinary" quality for the international market. Ways in which local cultural developments & traditions become part of the political economy through attempts to garner monopoly rents are described, highlighting the function of "urban entrepreneurialism." Continuing conflicts over the definition of monopoly powers accorded certain cultural locations & attempts to protect them via political means when the "natural monopolies" afforded by space & location become eroded are discussed. Claims to uniqueness, speciality, or authenticity made to capture monopoly rents are examined, offering the example of the collective symbolic capital acquired by certain world cities. Contradictions faced by capitalists as they attempt to capture monopoly rents are also described, along with the openings they offer to socialist alternatives. K. Hyatt Stewart

Explores the relationship between culture & capital, focusing on the commodification of certain types of cultural artifacts & events & the politicization of the "creative core" of artistic-cultural production & transmission by what Daniel Bell (1978) refers to as the "cultural mass." The significance of monopoly rents to the relationship between contemporary processes of economic globalization & special cultural forms or localities is discussed; the example is offered of the monopoly rent given by vineyards producing wines of "extraordinary" quality for the international market. Ways in which local cultural developments & traditions become part of the political economy through attempts to garner monopoly rents are described, highlighting the function of "urban entrepreneurialism." Continuing conflicts over the definition of monopoly powers accorded certain cultural locations & attempts to protect them via political means when the "natural monopolies" afforded by space & location become eroded are discussed. Claims to uniqueness, speciality, or authenticity made to capture monopoly rents are examined, offering the example of the collective symbolic capital acquired by certain world cities. Contradictions faced by capitalists as they attempt to capture monopoly rents are also described, along with the openings they offer to socialist alternatives. K. Hyatt Stewart