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This paper analyzes this shift in the relationship between China and the United States, focusing in particular on the role of American corporations in shaping US geopolitical strategies with regard to China. Once aggressive promoters of economic integration with China, these firms now defend policies designed to block the growth of Chinese firms in Western markets and protect America's lead in critical emerging technologies. The current tension between the US and China, we argue, reflects, in part, a dispute for control over technical progress in these key areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This commentary expresses appreciation for Professor Labontés work, along with some hopefully constructive suggestions. Professor Labontés editorial shows ambivalence about reforms within capitalism. Such reforms remain contradictory and unlikely to prevail. Transformation to post-capitalist political economies is an exciting focus of moving beyond the hurtful effects of capitalism. Can the state… mitigate capitalisms inherent inegalitarianism? Problematically, government resides in the capitalist state, whose main purpose is to protect the capitalist economic system. The states contradictory characteristics manifest in inadequate measures to protect health, as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social determination, referring to illness-generating structures of power and finance, is replacing social determinants, referring mainly to demographic variables. Problems warranting attention include: capitalist industrial agriculture causing pandemics through destruction of protective natural habitat, structural racism, sexism and social reproduction, social class structure linked to inequality, and expropriation of nature to accumulate capital. Transformation to post-capitalism involves creative construction of new solidarity economies, while creative destructions block smooth functioning of the capitalist system.

This commentary expresses appreciation for Professor Labonté’s work, along with some hopefully constructive suggestions. Professor Labonté’s editorial shows ambivalence about reforms within capitalism. Such reforms remain contradictory and unlikely to prevail. Transformation to post-capitalist political economies is an exciting focus of moving beyond the hurtful effects of capitalism. Can “the state … mitigate capitalism’s inherent inegalitarianism”? Problematically, government resides in the capitalist state, whose main purpose is to protect the capitalist economic system. The state’s contradictory characteristics manifest in inadequate measures to protect health, as during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Social determination,” referring to illness-generating structures of power and finance, is replacing “social determinants,” referring mainly to demographic variables. Problems warranting attention include: capitalist industrial agriculture causing pandemics through destruction of protective natural habitat, structural racism, sexism and social reproduction, social class structure linked to inequality, and expropriation of nature to accumulate capital. Transformation to post-capitalism involves creative construction of new solidarity economies, while creative destructions block smooth functioning of the capitalist system.

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Proposals for slowing climate change by reflecting sunlight back to space, known as solar geoengineering (SG), are gaining traction in climate policy. Given SG's capacity to slow warming without reducing carbon emissions, prominent criticism suggests that it will enable fossil fueled business-as-usual. This assessment is not without merit, yet the primary funders of SG research do not emanate from fossil capital. We analyze sources of funding for SG research globally, finding close ties to mostly US financial and technological capital as well as a number of billionaire philanthropists. These corporate sectors and associated philanthropies comprise part of 'climate capital' – the fraction of the capitalist class nominally aligned with climate action. We argue that SG is being positioned as a tactic for enabling incremental, market-driven decarbonization, explore key institutions advocating this approach in US climate policy, and conclude that SG is poised to serve as a tool for class compromise between fossil and climate capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in fiscal studies, from the new fiscal sociology to fiscal geographies and beyond, with roots in the 20th century theories of Schumpeter (liberal) and O'Connor (Marxian). The notion of a 'tax state' remains particularly germane, and indeed fiscal studies have all but narrowed to assessments of the relations and implications of taxation. This paper calls for a meaningful engagement with the 'fiscal' in fiscal studies where taxation is better understood as being but one component of public sector revenue and expenditure (alongside other important features like asset ownership, debt/credit, and intergovernmental transfers). More than an academic quibble over terminology or unit of analysis, narrowing 'fiscal' to 'tax' obscures many budget items and misses out on important temporal trends in the political economy of state revenue and expenditure. These issues are explored in two parts: the roots of fiscal studies (politicizing theoretical underpinnings), and the various conjunctural features of the fiscal state (tracing the temporal through Canadian examples). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The right-wing movement in India received an impetus in 2014 with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), capturing governmental power at the national level. Among the fundamental traits of the right-wing movement in India, as in America, is what is called post-truth. The latter is a condition where blatant lies (or half-truths) are deliberately produced and spread on a massive scale, for an ideological and political purpose. The post-truth condition has important intellectual and political implications. For example, given its commitment to claims that are without any objective basis, the right-wing movement sees society as divided into groups on the basis of subjective criteria (e.g., religion). Thus it denies the objective basis for seeing a society as class-society. It also concomitantly denies the state as class-state. A directly political implication of post-truthism is the accumulation of lies by means of the suppression of dissent. The right-wing movement, including its post-truthism, does not hang in the air, however. It has a solid political-economic foundation. This article critically discusses the post-truth character of India's right-wing movement, and explains how it is that the overall character of India's capitalist economy is behind this. The broader arguments of the article have wider applicability beyond India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective/Context: This article proposes methodological and conceptual alternatives to address the transformations of the capitalist State in a global context from a Marxist point of view. Methodology: First, we review some theoretical contributions of Nikos Poulantzas and their importance within the debates on State formation and internationalization processes. Subsequently, we expose the central elements of the Strategic-Relational Approach (RSA) proposed by Jessop to understand the strategic selectivities that operate within the State, with an emphasis on selectivities of a discursive nature. Conclusions: As an alternative field for the study of discursive selectivities, we present Cultural Political Economy (CPE) as a proposal that, in theoretical and methodological terms, can provide elements for the analysis of political and economic imaginaries, as well as their role in the global reproduction of hegemony and social change. Originality: We address the validity of an emerging field of trans-disciplinary studies to analyze the State in global capitalism, which, despite its possibilities, has little literature in Spanish. Likewise, its importance is highlighted for overpassing “methodological nationalism” and analyzing the interaction of national and international scales in the transformation of State projects. Finally, emphasis is placed on the gaps that persist both in empirical and theoretical terms regarding the modifications that neoliberal globalization has meant for dependent or peripheral capitalist States.

The theme issue 'Making Space for the New State Capitalism' brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we highlight some of the potentially productive ambiguities that accompany the new state capitalism rubric. Subsequent introductory commentaries will consider the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development (along with the second group of papers); and the challenges and opportunities of thinking conjuncturally (with the third group of papers). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are embedded within, dynamics of capital accumulation, state, and class struggle. Drawing on Poulantzas' approach to "state contradictions," we focus on the ways by which bovine meat figures in Narendra Modi's authoritarian populist project in contemporary India. On the one hand, violent authoritarianism in the country uses beef eating as a powerful tool for subjugating subaltern groups to Hindutva rule. On the other hand, the country houses a rapidly expanding beef meat agro‐industry, accounting for as much as 20% of global exports and based on corporate concentration around dominant class interests. We argue that this points to state contradictions in Modi's India witnessing strained accumulation patterns. These contradictions, we emphasize, have distinct ramifications for India's classes of labour in the countryside, as certain groups experience what we describe as a process of "double victimization." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay conceptualizes the capitalist state's taxation and expenditure activities in Marx's circuit of capital. It also empirically shows how the net social wage has evolved in Turkey in the period 1980–2019 and in what direction it has influenced the rate of surplus value. The essay's empirical findings demonstrate the utter failure of the pseudo-welfare state of Turkey to ameliorate income distribution. Hence, the article contributes to demolishing the myth that the Islamist party AKP, in power since 2003, is pro-poor and pro-labor, and that its fiscal policies have been consistent with its glorified Islamic values and its self-ascribed image of an antipoverty stance. JEL Classification : H2, H5, I30 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today the social functions of the state and commons, which have been able to escape capital’s transformative effect so far, are under attack around the world. Discussions around the concept of primitive accumulation are attempts to understand the reasons, mechanisms and results of such attacks. Primitive accumulation in historical sense refers to a precapitalist separation of peasants from the means of production, which creates the necessary conditions for capitalist development. On the other hand, many scholars since Luxemburg argue that primitive accumulation is a continuous process throughout capitalism’s history and it is intertwined with capitalist accumulation. Bringing primitive accumulation from precapitalism to contemporary era has created theoretical problems. Since the state is traditionally the perpetrator of primitive accumulation, the proposed way to solve them is to revisit the capitalist state debate and to scrutinize its role in contemporary developments, such as land, water and resource grabbing, simultaneously happening around the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research has the purpose of analyzing the social implications of neo-Malthusianism since it is about the impulse of the current capitalist in search of guaranteeing the permanence in time of the relations of exploitation. The related condition of rights leads to the fact that they occur when individuals and communities recognize ethical limits to possible conduct by identifying that certain actions violate the dignified condition of life. Thus, the foundation of fascist ideology seeks to cut off these recognitions so that situations of overexploitation of work and transfer of value are possible. Consequently, emancipation occurs as a subversion of fallacious social models for the benefit of collective legislation for the benefit of oneself. It is a bibliographical study of a diachronic nature from the deductive rationalist approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of the circular economy has gained significant political momentum because it offers policymakers a viable approach to tackling resource depletion, reducing waste and promoting economic development all at the same time. Current research, however, only focuses on the technological feasibility of this model, overlooking circularity's inherent contradiction: namely, that it valorizes waste rather than reducing it. This article tackles this limit by questioning the role of the state in what we describe as 'waste valorization'. It interrogates the urban political ecology of construction and demolition waste, the largest stream of inert materials in the world. It analyses CDW's geographies and economic position in urban development and the shifting rationales by which it is governed. To do this, it compares historical shifts in how CDW has been regulated in Hong Kong and Rotterdam. The article shows that waste is no longer an abject residual of urbanization, but a driver of urban development and a burgeoning sphere of accumulation in ecological capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "Cultural Political Economy: An Emerging Field for the Analysis of Contemporary Transformations of the Capitalist State" proposes methodological and conceptual alternatives to address the transformations of the capitalist state from a Marxist perspective. The author reviews the theoretical contributions of Nikos Poulantzas and highlights the importance of the strategic relational approach proposed by Jessop. Additionally, it presents cultural political economy as a novel alternative for the study of political and economic imaginaries in the global reproduction of hegemony and social change. The article emphasizes the lack of literature in Spanish on this field of study and the importance of analyzing the interaction of national and international scales in the transformation of state projects. [Extracted from the article]

Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state's inherent properties and their environmental implications. Less attention has been paid to how the state's green capacities are conditioned by contemporary evolutions in the form and pace of capital accumulation. Capitalism's directional pattern of historical development poses unique challenges for green state projects. Its drive to raise labour productivity metabolises nature on a growing scale, while generating conditions of overproduction and rendering a progressively larger portion of the population superfluous to the production process. Thus, the question is not simply whether the state can rise to the challenge of climate change, but rather how states are scrambling to govern the intersecting crises of climate catastrophe, economic stagnation, and surplus humanity. This 'wicked trinity' compounds the tensions at the heart of the capitalist state, resulting in an increasing inability to perform its role while sustaining its liberal form. This governance trilemma is illustrated by the case of the solar photovoltaic boom, where the spectacular increase in the productivity and scale of solar panel manufacturing have generated oversupply and falling profitability. States have reacted by indefinitely providing subsidies, financing automation technologies that exacerbate labour superfluity, and relocating solar panel manufacturing to places with authoritarian labour regimes. The case of photovoltaics is a microcosm of the general predicament faced by states as they struggle to govern capitalism's secular developmental tendencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay is part of a dossier on Cristina Lafont's book Democracy without Shortcuts.

Agricultural development and water infrastructure constitute the central features of California's Central Valley. Marxist ecological theory has examined the development of capitalist agriculture in the Central Valley, while decolonial scholarship has critiqued the disproportionate impact of California's water resource management on Indigenous communities. We bring together Marxist ecology and critiques of settler colonialism through an examination of land reclamation in California, culminating in the development of the Central Valley Project (CVP) in the 1930s. Reclamation combined the twin logics of capitalism (accumulation) and settler colonialism (elimination) to produce landscapes conducive to capitalist agriculture. Faced with ecological limits to accumulation, colonial‐capitalist expansion required state intervention in the form of infrastructure projects to secure water for agricultural production. The CVP generated a rift in California's hydrologic cycle, causing significant declines in water quality and fisheries and giving rise to forms of resistance and restoration that challenge colonial‐capitalist water development in the Central Valley. The reciprocal restoration of salmon fisheries offers a method to begin mending this hydrologic rift while disrupting ongoing settler colonial violence in California. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research presents the uniqueness of Field Education in the city of Vitória da Conquista / BA and several readings led to the discussions here presented, anchored in Historical Dialectical Materialism. The research was carried out in Countryside Schools of that municipality, in which the implementation of the programs proposed by the Articulated Actions Plan (PAR), the physical conditions of schools and school transport were observed. It is worth highlighting that the municipality has a larger number of schools in rural areas than in urban areas. The results demonstrate that public policies for Field Education are necessary, however, this modality exposes limitations and also points out that the education system is tied to domination and exploitation by the ruling class, compared to those who diverge from the paradigms of this class. To break this stigma, it is necessary to defend an emancipatory Field Education that can overcome the fragmentation of knowledge, as well as in the liberation from alienation caused by the capitalist system and the guarantee of an education that is, in fact, at the service of the development of field populations, valuing their cultures and peculiarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Structured around the questions posed by Su and Lim's research agenda, this commentary looks at the why of state-led venture capital (SVC) through state theory, the how of SVC through changes in the Business Development Bank of Canada, and the what of SVC through dynamics of capitalist public ownership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the actions of capitalist countries in the situation of the crisis related to the Covid-19 pandemic, primarily the actions of the world's leading economic powers (the United States, China, Japan, Germany, India). An attempt is made to find the characteristics and motifs of these actions. On this basis, an assessment is made of the adequacy of the definition of the capitalist state by Friedrich Engels as "the ideal collective capitalist". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present constitutes a reflective analysis of the theory that for decades has described the mechanisms used by the capitalist state to exercise its domination in the world system. It starts from the examination of core aspects concerning the relative autonomy of the State with respect to the ruling class, as well as the domination and legitimacy of that domination established by a hegemony that is sustained in a specific ideological system instilled and transmitted by generations in the capitalist social system. The theoretical proposals of Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are the cornerstone of this article. From the examination of the central aspects of these theoretical proposals that are opposed to and complement each other, it was possible to arrive at specific conclusions to understand the complex phenomenon of domination of the capitalist state in its interior and with views beyond the borders.

The intensifying global ecological crisis is, by any measure, among the defining political economy issues of our epoch. Questions concerning the state have recently returned to prominence in the field of environmental politics, offering a productive meeting point for research addressing environmental politics and that addressing the political economy of state transformation. The papers in this section all approach the question of the state and its relationship to ecological crisis from a political-economic perspective, foregrounding its relationship to the broader political-economic model in which it is situated. This short article introduces the four contributions to the special section and situates them amidst the broader contemporary research literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay is part of a dossier on Cristina Lafont's book Democracy without Shortcuts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The canonical version of the 'bourgeois revolutions' has been under attack from both pro-capitalist 'Revisionist' historians and 'Political Marxists'. Neil Davidson's book How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? provides a thorough review of the intellectual history of the notion of the bourgeois revolution and attempts to rescue the concept from varied criticism. Despite distancing himself from problematic formulations of the bourgeois revolution inherited from Second-International Marxism, Davidson's own framework reproduces many of the historical and conceptual problems of this tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to evaluate Nicos Poulantzas's theory of (capitalist) state based on the general characteristics of his conceptual framework. Poulantzas is a pre-eminent figure in the state theory not only due to the debates that he participated or that are drawn upon his position, but mainly due to the key theoretical means that his framework provides for analysing capitalist state, considering the developmental line of his complicated works. In this sense, this paper shares the view that Poulantzas's works do involve certain features of a relational, a non-reductionist theory of state which provide essential means to grasp the capitalist state with its different types. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study argues that Nicos Poulantzas presents nuanced understanding of the state and its mechanisms in capitalist societies. Unlike conventional Marxist perspectives that view the state merely as a tool of oppression for the ruling class, Poulantzas's approach recognizes the potential for popular participation in socialist transformation. His standpoint emphasizes the state as a site of class struggle and highlights its role in establishing, maintaining, and perpetuating the relations of production. It stresses the significance of developing new political subjectivities to challenge the existing structures of power and domination. Poulantzas acknowledges complexities inherent in the state within capitalist societies and rejects deterministic interpretations of its function. He focuses on the various forms of exploitation experienced by subordinate classes across economic, political, and ideological domains. His ideas offer valuable insights into influence of state on socio-economic structures, contributing to debates about the role and purpose of the state. Study offered significant information in reaching conclusion and extracting recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present constitutes a reflective analysis of the theory that for decades has described the mechanisms used by the capitalist state to exercise its domination in the world system. It starts from the examination of core aspects concerning the relative autonomy of the State with respect to the ruling class, as well as the domination and legitimacy of that domination established by a hegemony that is sustained in a specific ideological system instilled and transmitted by generations in the capitalist social system. The theoretical proposals of Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are the cornerstone of this article. From the examination of the central aspects of these theoretical proposals that are opposed to and complement each other, it was possible to arrive at specific conclusions to understand the complex phenomenon of domination of the capitalist state in its interior and with views beyond the borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]