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Re: hegeomony guns and money by Elson Boles 08 April 2002 12:30 UTC |
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Well, yes and
no. Yes, Genoa and Spain were a split of guns and money, however, Arrighi
focuses on Venice as analogous to the UP, UK, US. Venice in Arrighi's view
was unusual in being a capitalist state -- entrepreneurs ran the state and
military. The UP marks the split of state and private enterprise functions
that continues to this day. So, yes, the split of today (US, Asia) being
the spatial split between guns and money, is perhaps analogous to Genoa and
Spain, but then again no because there is no Venice -- yet alone an
interstate structure and UN, IMF, WB -- around today as there was
then. The systemic structures and processes are entirely
different.
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