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minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 个月前And what are the opposing tendencies in these contradictions?
minus-squareAzrael@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 个月前In realism, the opposing tendencies are expansion of one state’s power and balancing by others to preserve sovereignty. In institutionalism, it’s integration versus fragmentation. Neither requires framing global politics as capital versus labor.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 个月前And yet both of these are largely driven by imperialism, as secondary contradictions of the single most important factor in the global economy.
minus-squareAzrael@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 个月前We’re working from fundamentally different priors. I don’t think global politics reduces to a single economic contradiction. I’ll leave it there.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 个月前I don’t believe it does either, though, just that one issue is primary.
And what are the opposing tendencies in these contradictions?
In realism, the opposing tendencies are expansion of one state’s power and balancing by others to preserve sovereignty. In institutionalism, it’s integration versus fragmentation. Neither requires framing global politics as capital versus labor.
And yet both of these are largely driven by imperialism, as secondary contradictions of the single most important factor in the global economy.
We’re working from fundamentally different priors. I don’t think global politics reduces to a single economic contradiction. I’ll leave it there.
I don’t believe it does either, though, just that one issue is primary.