Globalization was a political move by capital, not a technological fate

Evidence

When it is presented as driven exclusively by the information revolution, globalization is deprived of its political dimension and appears as a fate to which we all have to submit. This is precisely where our critique should begin. Scrutinizing this conception. AndU Gon has argued that. instead of being seen as the necessary consequence of a technological revolution, the process of globalization must be understood as a move by capital to provide what was a fundamentally political answer to the C crisis of govemability’ of the 1970s. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 525

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that globalization was capital’s political answer to the 1970s governability crisis begs scrutiny — is this argument actually defensible on the evidence, or is it an ideological counter-narrative?
• XREF: connects to: Resisting capital requires a counter-globalization, not nation-state refusal — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 528; Globalization theory overlooks that nation-states still serve their own capital — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 441; Capital escaped the capitalist market, not labour — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 365 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Technology results from capital’s development, not the reverse #corroborates (0.85)
• Neoliberal globalism meant insulating markets from democracy, not abolishing states #expands (0.83) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 56
• Resisting capital requires a counter-globalization, not nation-state refusal #expands (0.82) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 528
• Politics is not a mechanical reflection of economic structure #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1447
• Capitalism’s non-political nature enabled its global penetration beyond state reach #complicates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 174
• Globalization theory overlooks that nation-states still serve their own capital #expands (0.78) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 441
• Late-20th-century globalization was Americanization plus the fallout of Third World state collapse #qualifies (0.76) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 112
• Capital escaped the capitalist market, not labour #expands (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 365
• Neoliberalism is a reprogramming of liberal governmentality, not a reaction to capitalist crisis #complicates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 83