Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The end of the imperialist epoch

2011-01-18 Thread c b
Hear , hear, Waistline CB ^ Comment Obviously the modern Chinese state is not a SETTLER STATE or seeking  to secure or maintain a colony established by settlers. Treating imperialism in this era of political domination of speculative finance as  a general imperialism defeats the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The end of the imperialist epoch

2011-01-18 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 1/18/2011 10:04:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, _cb31450@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: Hear , hear, . . . . CB Thanks CB. The intent was a general summary agreeable of the broadest Marxist framework and divergent views of Lenin's meaning of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The end of the imperialist epoch

2011-01-15 Thread Waistline2
Historically, only capitalist countries which have intervened militarily to establish settler colonies or to set up puppet regimes to facilitate the exploitation of these territories by their own corporations and have been characterized as imperialist by Marxists and others. In a