Es inevitable en el paradigma marxista de la globalización? © Yale University
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Miguel D. Ramirez
Is Globalization Inevitable in the Marxian Paradigm? Department of Economics, Yale University, Working Paper No. 8, 20 p.

This paper examines Marx‘s views on globalization and its supposed inevitability, and contends that they underwent a substantial evolution and revision after the publication of the Communist Manifesto. In the case of China, a prime example of the Asiatic mode of production, Marx even doubted whether globalization (capitalism) would ever be able to accomplish its historical mission of developing the forces of production and creating the material conditions for a higher mode of production, viz., Communism.
While in the Russian case, he seriously entertained the notion that it could bypass the hardships and vicissitudes of capitalism and forge its own unique path to socialism. If accepted, this interpretation represents a serious challenge to the universality and validity of Marx‘s materialist conception of history.

Keywords: modo de producción asiático, capitalismo, globalización, concepción materialista de la Historia, tendencias subconsumo, Karl Marx

Clasificación JEL: B10; B14; B24

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