Re: lumps in the gravy -- uneveness and interimperialist war

The likelihood of "inter-imperialist" war has diminished not because
capitalism has managed to develop out of conflict or because it has met
the needs of the people, but because the upper strata of the class system
have disembedded from their national context and globalized. The powerful
nations simply have far more to gain from cooperation than conflict, and
this cooperation is at a fundamentally different level of cooperation than
previous periods of peace because of the qualitative shift in the
intensity and depth of socioeconomic linkages -- these transcend national
boundaries in a way different than during the previous periods where war
was probable. This is not arguing that nation-states are powerless or do
not determine/condition the parameters of struggle; rather nation-states
have been transformed in ways that refocus struggle from
inter-imperialist/nation-state rivalry to global class and race warfare.
Beneath all this the objective basis is being laid for global class war,
and by this I mean a class war of global proportions, not the objective
fact of class struggle globally (which is a fact of all class-divided
societies). It has taken the transnationalization of the capitalist mode
of production and the class/race system, and the transformation of the
nation-state amid this globalization, to create the objective conditions
for global class struggle. The question now is whether the world
proletarian and peasant classes can organize into a counterhegemonic
movement and engage the struggle at the level of open conflict. The focus
on nation-states in conflict, i.e., "inter-imperialist" war doesn't make
much sense in the context of global capitalism where those who steer the
direction of world-historical development are the global capitalist class
and their national adjuncts, and the central organic/structural line of
world-historical development is globalization towards world society and
culture. In fact, the old imperialist rhetoric of the left is a
distraction and an epistemic barrier to objective knowledge about the
present world-historical stage of the capitalist epoch. Just to make a
note of this, Marx and Engels predicted this would happen in the Communist
Manifesto.

Peace,
Andy