Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach

Evidence

“Capitalism was from the beginning an affair of the world economy and not of nation-states… . Capital has never allowed its aspirations to be determined by national boundaries.” Capitalism has been such a fundamental globalising influence precisely because it is an economic rather than a political order; it has been able to penetrate far-flung areas of the world which the states of its origin could not have brought wholly under their political sway. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 174

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Parallel to the tamarisk/tree piece: like root systems spreading beyond any political enclosure, capitalism’s economic order extends trust across boundaries no single state governs.
• XREF: connects to: Much societal power remains beyond the political system’s reach; Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 173; Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370 (+12 more)

Related

• Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics (similarity 0.89)
• World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. (similarity 0.84)
• Much societal power remains beyond the political system’s reach (similarity 0.84)
• Modern capitalism emerged only within the framework of the evolving western state (similarity 0.83)
• Modern capitalism created two overlapping worlds of territorial states and dispersed private property. (similarity 0.82)
• Engels held that capitalism favored some nations’ boundaries and not others’. (similarity 0.82)
• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence (similarity 0.80)
• A capitalist society is a society only because it is a nation-state (similarity 0.80)
• The economy never operates free of political and ideological practices (similarity 0.80)
• Decolonization within capitalism unified all capital zones under US dominance. (similarity 0.80)
• Gramsci’s state concept explains how capitalism became a whole way of social life (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism’s break from earlier systems is market dependence, not markets themselves. (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism’s global expansion paradoxically produced nationalist fragmentation. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics #corroborates (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 173
• Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside #corroborates (0.45) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost #complicates (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370
• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #complicates (0.40)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.40)
• Globalisation produces mutually opposed tendencies, not uniform worldwide change #qualifies (0.35) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 167
• World market expansion can intensify pre-capitalist production relations. #expands (0.30)