Abstract

The defining dialectic in the world today is the contradiction between nation-centric forms of capitalist accumulation and the rapidly developing transnational system of production. These two forms of capitalism contain class interests connected to the benefits, oppression and institutional structures that arise out of the relations of production inherent in each model. These divisions between the descending and rising forms of accumulation lay the foundation for current forms of class struggle. As each country's economy is inserted into the transnationalized chain of production and finance, class forces associated with the old forms of production struggle to maintain their power as they are challenge from within and without. In the United States these struggles have led to a division within the capitalist class between multilateral globalists and unilateralist hegemonists.