Empire of Capital - Contemporary Academic Trends

Author: Ellen M. Wood (Canada)
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: What drove the Bush administration to attack Afghanistan and then invade Iraq? What influences the U.S. military strategy and deployment? This book argues that Bushism represents a new form of imperialism, driven by capital, enabling the empire to achieve global domination through purely economic means. This capitalist economic empire demands a new military thought and war principles—namely, a state of war that has no limits in time or purpose. With analytical and historical insight, the author skillfully outlines a genealogy of imperialism. At the same time, the revelation of this capitalist imperialism transforms the topic of "globalization" into the following question: What should we criticize—globalization of capital or capitalism itself? What drove the Bush administration to attack Afghanistan and then invade Iraq? What influences the U.S. military strategy and deployment? This book argues that Bushism represents a new form of imperialism, driven by capital, enabling the empire to achieve global domination through purely economic means. This capitalist economic empire demands a new military thought and war principles—namely, a state of war that has no limits in time or purpose. With analytical and historical insight, the author skillfully outlines a genealogy of imperialism. At the same time, the revelation of this capitalist imperialism transforms the topic of "globalization" into the following question: What should we criticize—globalization of capital or capitalism itself?