[lbo-talk] From Inter-imperialist Rivalry to US Hegemony to ?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/9/07, james daly <james.irldaly at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Heartfield" <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:08 PM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] British Empire (was US Imperialism)
>
> "However, I think a lot of Kenyans, Irishmen, Tanganyikans,
> Singaporeans and Malay Chinese would be irritated to
> hear that the Empire was finished in 1945".
> *********
> In "Ulster" it shows no sign of dying.  "Ulster is British" corresponds to
> "Algerie Francaise".  If you wore a T-shirt saying "Ulster is Irish" outside
> the kind of ghetto I live in, you would not get back alive.
> Years ago I asked posters to the A-list and Marxmail
> what sign they saw of
> the British withdrawal their abstract theories confidently a priori
> predicted.  Nobody came up with any.  Even New Sinn Fein sees none.
> J. D.

To be sure, many (all?) of former US imperial rivals and enemies still
own colonies here and there.  I was, however, thinking of change in
global politics of capitalism:

from inter-imperialist rivalry

to US hegemony I (from WW2 to the early 1970s)

to US hegemony II (from the early 1970s to present).

It's possible that we are now in a period of transition from US
hegemony II to a new system.  Gramsci said that when "the old is dying
and the new cannot be born," in an interregnum "a great variety of
morbid symptoms appear."
-- 
Yoshie
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