> I think there's a great deal of literature out there about why non-American
> capitalism works. What about Amsden, Tabb and Wade?
They've done excellent work (I'd also add Michael Gerlach's sterling "Alliance Capitalism" to the list), but they stay within very confined, national boundaries, and the problem is, things like the Mitsubishi keiretsu, or investment flows in the chip industry (not to mention the skyscraper-sized lizard of Eurocapitalism, currently rampaging through Eastern Europe), follow a multinational logic all their own. My point is that to resist this logic, we need to think it through concretely, i.e. rise from the abstract critique of neoliberal capital to the reality of the class struggles of, say, coastal China. Weirdly, much of the best global analysis nowadays takes place on the cultural level, e.g. explications of China's 5th generation filmmakers, or the wondrous achievements of the Hong Kong films. We don't yet have good ways of relating neoliberal economics to our cultural maps (of course, Seattle shows it can be done).
-- Dennis