Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/157780 
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2007
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[Journal:] New Political Economy [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] The Bichler and Nitzan Archives [Place:] Toronto [Year:] 2007 [Pages:] 517-539
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The Bichler and Nitzan Archives, Toronto
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FROM THE ARTICLE: . . . what many critics of the war on terror or US imperialism have so far failed to appreciate is how this project would be impossible without the capitalisation of the state. In this article, I therefore want to suggest that Marx’s re-theorisation of the concept of primitive accumulation, combined with a non-Marxist theorisation of state power offered by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, can help us account for the intimate connection between ongoing primitive accumulation and the capitalisation of the US government. . . . I try to show that we can accept their novel theory of capital as a capitalised and commodified form of power, but argue that the concept of primitive accumulation still has considerable analytical value for theorising the extension and depth of capitalist social property relations within and across political jurisdictions.
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capitalization
organized violence
primitive accumulation
state
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