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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