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  PoliticsVolume 26 Issue 1, Pages 62 - 72 Published Online: 12 Jan 2006 Journal compilation © 2010 Political Studies Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd Published by the Political Studies Association and Blackwell Publishing
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 86K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  The Grimly Comic Riddle of Hegemony in IPE: Where is Class Struggle?* Copyright © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 Political Studies Association ABSTRACTThis contribution reflects on the current state of 'critical' international political economy (IPE) by contesting the prevailing dominance of liberal pluralist analysis and its overriding commitment to defining the social as an arena of multiple, competing and individuated identities. While ubiquitously invoked, what exactly does the 'critical' prefix represent? My argument is that much 'critical' analysis in IPE is a liberal pluralist flag of convenience, which is anti-historical materialism. By contrast, an historical materialist critical theory of capitalist unfreedom and exploitation is presented through a focus on social class identity, forms of capitalist state and state power, the social function of ideology and the prehistory of the modern international states-system. |
