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From Communist Manifesto to Empire: How Marxists Have Viewed Global Capitalism in History

Hamid Hosseini

King's College, 133 N. River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711; hshossei{at}kings.edu

This article surveys the recent Marxist globalization debate and its roots in Marx's post-1848 writings and the Lenin-Kautsky unity-rivalry debate on the eve of World War I. The post-1916 Marxist view of capitalist imperialism is contrasted with the Hardt-Negri "Leninist" view of global capitalism they call "empire." To refute their thesis, the author analyzes the Lenin-Kautsky debate, proving that it is not empire, but Kautsky's notion of ultraimperialism that best fits today's global capitalism.

Key Words: globalization • imperialism • ultra-imperialism • empire • nation-state

Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 38, No. 1, 7-23 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0486613405283118
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