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This thesis reconceptualises the term ‘imperialism’ based on the capacity for the Indian Political Economy (IPE) tradition to synthesise the divergent meanings assigned to the term. The original theorists who popularised the term, namely John Hobson, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Kautsky, sought to explain the underlying causes of WW1, but had limited theoretical capacity for explaining national exploitation. World-Systems analysis (WSA), which developed after WW2, sought to explain national exploitation, but had limited theoretical capacity for explaining the long-term structural tendencies towards warfare. Therefore, ‘imperialism’ must become a theory that explains how economic relations historically founded on national exploitation create long-term conditions for warfare. The pioneering work of Dadabhai Naoroji that founded the IPE tradition exposed how Britain exploited India, which prepared the ground for the Indian Marxist perspective within IPE, of which Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik are contemporary representatives. The resulting theory of ‘imperialism’ proposes that while multiple relations of national exploitation may exist, there is typically one such relat

Author

Jay Tharappel

Publisher

University of Sydney

Published

2022

Language

EN