Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Aspect ofIndia'sEconReport:TheRealStateofIndia'sEconomy

[Doug Stokes]

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Ah, but for many leftists, the U.S. is the focus of evil in the
modern world. (I'd mention Carrol, but I don't want it to seem as if
I'm picking on him, since he is a venerable senior citizen, and
therefore deserving of respect.) I think one reason many leftists
can't stop bashing Hardt & Negri is that they tried to rethink the
imperial system as a more collegial, dispersed, decentered structure
(though now they're curiously appealing to the non-U.S. elements to
demand a Magna Carta). You can't very well say "Empire out of
Everywhere!" if Empire is more or less everywhere.

Doug
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But presumably the empire is centereed insofar as the US is the pre-eminent
imperial state, under whose 'informal empire' other leading capitalist
powers huddle. Isn't this most clearly illustrated by the US's ongoing
policing of a number of states and social forces that may threaten
neo-liberal globalisation? Can one imagine other leading cap powers doing
this? The increasing transnationalisation of capital still must rely upon
state forms, and a US-centered imperial state to underwrite global order.

D S.