From Communist Manifesto to Empire: How Marxists Have Viewed Global Capitalism in History

Hamid Hosseini
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Hamid Hosseini: King's College, 133 N. River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711; hshossei@kings.edu

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2006, vol. 38, issue 1, 7-23

Abstract: This article surveys the recent Marxist globalization debate and its roots in Marx's post-1848 writings and the Lenin-Kautsky unity-rivalry debate on the eve of World War I. The post-1916 Marxist view of capitalist imperialism is contrasted with the Hardt-Negri “Leninist†view of global capitalism they call “empire.†To refute their thesis, the author analyzes the Lenin-Kautsky debate, proving that it is not empire, but Kautsky's notion of ultraimperialism that best fits today's global capitalism.

Keywords: globalization; imperialism; ultra-imperialism; empire; nation-state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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