[lbo-talk] New Imperialism?

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> 
> >Ok, I will read Harvey, but my question was 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?
> 
> Doug

Are you saying that hierarchies are the natural and inevitable order of things and that non-
hierarchal arrangements are not?

John Thornton