The ‘Art’ of Colonisation: Capitalising Sovereign Power and the Ongoing Nature of Primitive Accumulation
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, the authors argue that the concept of primitive accumulation still has considerable analytical value for theorising the extension and depth of capitalist social property relations within and across political jurisdictions.Abstract:
FROM THE ARTICLE: . . . what many critics of the war on terror or US imperialism have so far failed to appreciate is how this project would be impossible without the capitalisation of the state. In this article, I therefore want to suggest that Marx’s re-theorisation of the concept of primitive accumulation, combined with a non-Marxist theorisation of state power offered by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, can help us account for the intimate connection between ongoing primitive accumulation and the capitalisation of the US government. . . . I try to show that we can accept their novel theory of capital as a capitalised and commodified form of power, but argue that the concept of primitive accumulation still has considerable analytical value for theorising the extension and depth of capitalist social property relations within and across political jurisdictions.read more
Citations
More filters
The Political Economy of Accounting and the 2003 Iraq War
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Table of Table of contents of the paper "Acknowledgements and acknowledgements of the authors of this paper: https://www.goprocessor.org/
Journal ArticleDOI
What Happened to the Bondholding Class? Public Debt, Power and the Top One Per Cent
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a new framework to address these questions, Anchored within a 'capital as power' approach, the framework was developed to address the questions first raised by Adams over a century ago.
Journal ArticleDOI
Capitalizing a future unsustainable: Finance, energy and the fate of market civilization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a power theory of value approach to offer a preliminary assessment of whether this transition is likely given the entrenched power of the oil and gas sector in the economy.
Journal ArticleDOI
A global bond: Explaining the safe-haven status of US Treasury securities
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of domestic politics in reinforcing the safe status of US Treasuries is highlighted, showing how a formidable "bond" of interests unites domestic and foreign owners of the public debt and works to sustain US power in global finance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Model villages in the neoliberal era: the Millennium Development Goals and the colonization of everyday life
TL;DR: The authors argue that the Millennium Development Goals function in these cases to facilitate and legitimate the production of social reality based on a naturalised vision of market society, while reproducing the strategies of social engineering that the neoliberal project is rhetorically oriented against.
References
More filters
Journal Article
The New Imperialism
TL;DR: This article argued that the British Empire was a " liberal" empire that upheld international law, kept the seas open and free, and ultimately benefited everyone by ensuring the free flow of trade.
Journal ArticleDOI
The long twentieth century: money, power, and the origins of our times
TL;DR: Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries" - ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space as mentioned in this paper.
Book
Legal foundations of capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an evolutionary and behavioral theory of value and examine the decisions of the courts that are based on custom and that profoundly impact the nature and function of the economic system as such.
Book ChapterDOI
The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism
TL;DR: The appearance of systematic barriers to economic advance in the course of capitalist expansion, the development of under-development, has posed difficult problems for Marxist theory as mentioned in this paper, and there has arisen a strong tendency sharply to revise Marx's conceptions regarding economic development.