Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: The Alternative to the Neoliberal System of Globalisation and Militarism. Imperialism today and the Hegemonic Offensive of the United States. Capitalism has entered the age of obsolescence. The new technological revolution saves both labour and capital and thus delegitimates the domination of the second over the first. The US leader of the new imperialist system does not provide capital to its peripheries ,but absorbs the surplus generated in the whole world in order to maintain its wasteful consumption .The devastating dimension of accumulation is thus reinforced ,as the case of an eventual further expansion of agricultural capitalism illustrates it . The power system responds to these features of senility by resorting to more violence ( the « american wars ») and giving up the universal values of its origins ,thus leading to a crisis of democratic legitimity
Source: Actuel Marx
DOI: 10.3917/amx.033.0101
Author: Samir Amin
Institution: Presses Universitaires de France
Language: French
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2006095795