Empire of Capital

Author: (Canada) Wood
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: What prompted the Bush administration to attack Afghanistan and then deploy troops in 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 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 such a question: What should we criticize—globalization of capital or capitalism itself?