Capitalism, globalization, and epochal shifts: An exchange

Monthly Review

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 19-32

  Sivanandan, A ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347803647     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-048-09-1997-02_2     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Forthcoming in Review of International Political Economy.
2. I owe this this term to Doug Henwood, who attributes it to Bob Fitch.
3. For an important discussion of how the myths of globalization are operating across a broad political spectrum and for some alternative proposals, see Greg Albo, "The World Economy, Market Imperatives and Alternatives," Monthly Review Vol. 48, No. 7.
4. See, for example, Dough Henwood Monthly Review Vol. 48, No. 4; Harry Magdoff "Globalization To What End?" A pamphlet form Monthly Review, 1992; L. Panitch, "Globalisation and the State," in R. Miliband and L. Panitch, eds., Socialist Register 1994: Between Globalism and Nationalism (London: Merlin, 1994).
5. See, for example, Dough Henwood Monthly Review Vol. 48, No. 4; Harry Magdoff "Globalization To What End?" A pamphlet form Monthly Review, 1992; L. Panitch, "Globalisation and the State," in R. Miliband and L. Panitch, eds., Socialist Register 1994: Between Globalism and Nationalism (London: Merlin, 1994).
6. See, for example, Dough Henwood Monthly Review Vol. 48, No. 4; Harry Magdoff "Globalization To What End?" A pamphlet form Monthly Review, 1992; L. Panitch, "Globalisation and the State," in R. Miliband and L. Panitch, eds., Socialist Register 1994: Between Globalism and Nationalism (London: Merlin, 1994).
7. See Robert E. Lipsey, Magnus Blomstrom, and Eric Ronstetter, "Internationalized Production in World Output," National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Working Paper 5385, December 1995.
8. This discussion is based on my article cited in note 1.
9. Aijaz Ahmad has made the latter point in an interview published in Monthly Review, Vol. 48, No. 5. For a discussion of the "structural dialect" of today's imperialism, which includes both the global expansion of capital and the "intensification of the nation-state," see also his "The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality," in Race and Class, 36.3, 1995, especially pp. 10-12.
10. Aijaz Ahmad has made the latter point in an interview published in Monthly Review, Vol. 48, No. 5. For a discussion of the "structural dialect" of today's imperialism, which includes both the global expansion of capital and the "intensification of the nation-state," see also his "The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality," in Race and Class, 36.3, 1995, especially pp. 10-12.
11. Sivanandan invokes Harry Braverman in support of his appeal to Marx's famous (and much misunderstood) proposition that "the handmill gives you society with the feudal lord and the steam-mill gives you society with the industrial capitalist," just as, according to Sivanandan, the microchip gives you society with the global capitalist. But Braverman practically begins his great book, Labor and Monopoly Capital, with a long discussion of this passage from Marx, the whole point of which is to distance himself from precisely the simplistic, technological-determinist interpretation Sivanandan gives it here.
12. I've discussed this point at greater lenght in "A Chronology of the New Left, Or: Who's Old-Fashioned Now?" Socialist Register 1995.