Globalization
of Capital and the Nation-State Globalization
of Capital and the Nation-State
Imperialism, Class Struggle, and the State in the Age of
Global Capitalism
by Berch Berberoglu
"At a time of imperial wars, the rise of left-wing regimes in Brazil and Venezuela, and world recession, Berch Berberoglu has written a very timely and hard-hitting study of the theoretical foundations of imperialism and the class and national struggles which result. This is an important text for students and faculty interested in a critical study of empire building."
—James Petras, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton
This book provides a cogent analysis of the globalization process and the role
of the imperial state in twentieth-century capitalist expansion on a world scale.
It examines the development of capitalism and the capitalist state across national
boundaries and traces the evolution of imperialism and interimperialist rivalries
that have come to define the nature of the world political economy.
As transnational capital has become a mighty force controlling the economies
of advanced and less-developed capitalist countries around the world, capitalism
and capitalist relations of production have spread to and dominated societies
and social relations in remote parts of the globe. The resulting globalization
of capital has given transnationals free reign to impose capitalist practices
on a global scale, such that only the biggest and most powerful capitalist monopolies
have become the real beneficiaries.
Berberoglu argues that while the globalization of capital enriches only a small segment of society -- the owners of the transnational corporations -- it devastates the great majority of the world's population. The process has immense consequences for working people throughout the world. As workers become aware of this reality and begin to address the issues that affect them, they begin to organize and become involved in class struggle to effect change.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
The Political Economy of Globalization and its Contradictions
1. Theories of the Global Economy and Global Empire
2. The Logic of Global Capitalist Expansion: Theories of Modern Imperialism
3. The Controversy over Globalization, Imperialism and Capitalist Development on a World Scale
4. The Postwar Rise of U.S. Capital onto the Global Scene
5. The Globalization of U.S. Capital and the Resurgence of Interimperialist Rivalry
6. The Imperial State and Control of the Global Political Economy
7. Global Capitalist Expansion and Domestic Economic Decline in the United States
8. The Globalization of Capital and the Capitalist State in the Third World
9. Globalization, Class Struggle, and Social Transformation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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Publication date: July 2003
ISBN: 0-7425-2494-9 (cloth)
0-7425-2495-7 (paper)
