----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:43 AM Subject: Re: fantasy and political organization
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> Ian Murray wrote:
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> > > Imperialism isn't a policy choice.
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> > > Yoshie
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> > That's a little too deterministic....
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> It isn't deterministic at all. Metabolism is not a policy choice of
the
> organism, but the relationship is hardly deterministic. Imperialism
is
> the mode of existence of late capitalism, not a separate entity.
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> Carrol
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Conflating metaphors. Historicizing Imperialism and it's
path-dependency means that it has it's origins in policy choices that
then locked in subsequent agents, otherwise your talking of a
universal/parametric politico-economic category, a kind of deus ex
machina. If there were no choices made at the origins of Imperialism
how could there be choices to end it via revolution yaddah yaddah or
is revo. not a manifestation of collective choice?
Ian