> uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>>why the contemporary global process of capital accumulation takes the form of an empire?
> The world is politically organized into countries, some more >powerful than others, with one considerably more powerful than >any other, but still largely incapable of acting entirely on its >own. How could it not arrange itself into some kind of >hierarchical system?>
Hierarchies have always existed, within each nation-state and internationally. Can we say hierarchy = empire?
Ulhas