States chose power export over sacrifice of national wealth
Evidence
The state expanded its power because, given the choice between greater losses than the economic body of any country could sustain and greater gains than any people left to its own devices would have dreamed of, it could only choose the latter. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 370
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The state-coerced-by-capital logic connects to Foucault’s biopolitics and how modern state rationality expands to serve accumulation.
Related
- States chose power expansion to protect foreign investment rather than sacrifice accumulated wealth (similarity 0.89)
- Exported capital requires strong state power over new domains (similarity 0.84)
- Capital export required state power to insure against risks shareholders refused to bear (similarity 0.79)
- Capital export once protected by power made expansion a permanent function of the nation-state (similarity 0.78)
- States were once expected to produce passions, not merely check them (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Exported capital requires strong state power over new domains
#complicates(0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2228 - Imperialism made power an end in itself rather than a means to law
#complicates(0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 373