Resisting capital requires a counter-globalization, not nation-state refusal
Evidence
By unveiling the strategies of power that have informed the process of globalization. Gon’s approach allows us to see the possibilicy for a countcNtrategy. It is of course vain simply to refuse globalization or to attempt resisting it in the context of the nation-state. It is only by opposing to the power of transnational capital another globalization. informed by a different political project, that we could have a chance to resist ncoliberalism succesfullyand to instate a new hegemony. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 528
Categorization
- XREF: The counter-hegemony via ‘another globalization’ doctrine is Mouffe’s practical proposal; relevant to testing whether her framework can sustain a non-exclusionary ‘we’. — connects to: Opposition to capital must mirror capital’s sufficient globalization and patchwork coordination. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2219; Globalization was a political move by capital, not a technological fate — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 525; Globalization theory overlooks that nation-states still serve their own capital — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 441 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Globalization theory overlooks that nation-states still serve their own capital
#qualifies(0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 441 - Financialization responds to worker and anti-colonial resistance by making capital more mobile
#expands(0.78) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 501 - Anti-imperial resistance requires nation-state restructuring, not just discursive acts
#complicates(0.78) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 57 - Capital precedes and shapes resistance rather than resistance driving capital
#complicates(0.76) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 923 - Postcolonial assertions of state sovereignty often defended against US-backed coups and economic exploitation
#complicates(0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 287 - One form of anti-globalization politics reforms the system’s rules without questioning industrialization itself.
#qualifies(0.74) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1351 - Synchronized mass resistance against globalization is a fantasy
#complicates(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 261