Market Imperialism

Research Paper # 65255

Economics
Political Science > Political Theory

Market Imperialism

Examines the need for a new market system which encourages multiplicity and removes capitalism.

4,925 words () | 19 sources | MLA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines the imperialistic dynamics of capitalism and the necessity for the invention of a new politics/society which embraces multiplicity over economic and cultural homogeneity. The paper argues that the shattering of market imperialism is contingent upon the 'beyond' of revolution through the ethic of love conceived by the multitude, which begins with a discourse dismantling the obstructions supporting the current system. Only then, when we choose to focus on the frame of society (capitalism) and annihilate it, will the cultural details within the frame come into and possess their full multiplicity and agency.

From the Paper:

"Studying capitalism from multiple perspectives may not prove productive. Capitalism is less object and more constructed abstraction. While we might think we are describing capitalism to each other as individuals from different cultural milieus discussing culturally influenced perceptions of market-production relationships, what we are actually examining are the different social-cultural constructions of market production or property relationships. These perceptions become indistinguishable from the constructions of capitalism through the repetition of discourses on globalization, which assert global cultural heterogeneity and alternative modernities."