Problem
Capitalist economic imperialism
Other Names:
Corporate market fundamentalism Claim:
The pattern cannot be plausibly denied once it is exposed. There are two major forms of attack on peoples' means of life to coerce them to conform to global financial and corporate demands. The first is to defund societies' non-profit social infrastructures everywhere until peoples have no choice but to privatize their management for profit. The second front of attack is more directly violent – to wage one financial and military war after another on the poorest peoples of the world to control their states and expropriate their regional resources. Both these wars on humanity are driven by a fanatic fundamentalism – to produce ever more money for those with most money, with no limit, regulation or higher goal permitted to "obstruct" these transnational money sequences.
Broader Problems:
CapitalismEconomic imperialismRepressive new world order Narrower Problems:
Imperialistic distribution systemInternationalization of capitalist productionControl of national economic sectors by transnational enterprises Related Problems:
Buyer controlled marketCommunist economic imperialism Aggravates:
Economic dependenceCapitalist political imperialismControl over international organizationsDenial of effective national self-determination by capitalist exploitation Strategies:
Reducing imperialism Values:
ImperialismUneconomic References:
Addo, Herb: Imperialism: the permanent stage of capitalismSau, Ranjit: Unequal Exchange, Imperialism and Underdevelopment: an essay on the political economy of world capitalismBerberoglu, Berch: The Internationalization of Capital: imperialism and capitalist development on a worldWilloughby, John: Capitalist Imperialism, Crisis and the State Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems Subject(s):
Economics → EconomicMetapolitics → Political theories
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Date of last update
17.04.2019 – 11:24 CEST