A Century of Marxist Debates Concerning Capitalism, Imperialism and Imperialist Competition

Abstract

The mechanicist association of capitalism to western imperialism has paved the way for current “globalisation” and “empire” discourses while minimising the importance of the nation-state. Conversely only a small number of neo-Marxists think otherwise, and our paper, by returning to classical Marxist theorists of imperialism, tends to valorise their minority position.