Empire of Capital: Contemporary Academic Trends

Author: (Canada) Wood, Wang Hengjie, Song Xingwu (Translator)
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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 variety 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 a blend of analysis 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?