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minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoAnd what are the opposing tendencies in these contradictions?
minus-squareAzrael@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agoIn 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-up5·2 months agoAnd 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-down2·2 months agoWe’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-up4·2 months agoI 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.