Index

Imperialism and Transitions to Socialism

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Publication date: 30 September 2021

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(2021), "Index", Herrera, R. (Ed.) Imperialism and Transitions to Socialism (Research in Political Economy, Vol. 36), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 237-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020210000036014

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INDEX

Absolute rent in Marx
, 52–53

Abstract labor
, 4, 17

and dematerialization of concrete labor
, 7–8

Marx’s conception of abstract labor
, 9–10

and physiological expenditure
, 5

productive and unproductive labor
, 10–13

and rationalization of production process
, 5–7

and socially equalized labor
, 8–9

Accelerated capital valorization
, 83

Agent Orange (AO)
, 145

Agriculture
, 125

Alianza País
, 197–198

Amazon
, 83

Anti-monopoly legal framework
, 207

Anti-neo-liberalism
, 50

Anti-oligarchic “new deal” of Citizens’ Revolution
, 207–208

“Anti-system left” political forces
, 188

Apple
, 83

Arab Spring
, 70

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
, 82–83, 91

Artificial needs
, 82

August Revolution and founding of DRV
, 141–143

Bakan’s “NewCorporation
, 40–41

Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES)
, 229

Banks
, 49

Bayesian analysis and sub-periodization
, 113–114

Bayesian approach
, 96

“Beat-them-to-death” approach
, 167

Bivariate VAR models
, 106–107

Box–Cox transformation
, 100

Brazil
, 24, 70

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (see Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB))

Brazilian political system
, 225

British neo-colonial corporations
, 54–55

Businesses in productive sector
, 90

Capital
, 43, 78, 83, 90

capital-intensive technologies
, 84

capitalism without accumulation of
, 89–91

centralization of
, 46–47

degree of concentration
, 43–44

fictitious
, 48–50

reproduction
, 43

Capital needs finance
, 16

Capital stock data
, 96–99

Capitalism, 3, 6, 22–23, 48, 82, 84 (see also Imperialism; Socialism)

abstract labor under
, 10

without accumulation of capital
, 89–91

labor in
, 62

reforms within
, 23–24

Capitalist economy
, 9

Capitalist rationality
, 6

Capitalist-like methods
, 169

to build socialism
, 170–172

Capitalization
, 49

Castro, Fidel
, 25, 165, 167–168

Centralization

of capital
, 40, 46–47

concentration to
, 43–44

Chavism

arrival to power and contradictions with dominant classes
, 189–191

contradictions of US Monopoly Capital with Chavista transition project
, 191–192

Chavista movement
, 189–191

Chavista transition project

contradictions of US Monopoly Capital with
, 191–192

exacerbation of contradictions between Chavista Project and United States
, 192–193

Cheaper labor as extension of absolute rent
, 53

China’s economic structure, evolution of

Bayesian analysis and sub-periodization
, 113–114

capital stock data and profit rate calculation
, 96–99

conditions of long-term constraints
, 107–110

econometric modeling framework
, 99–104

empirical estimations
, 104

granger causality tests and wald tests in bivariate VAR models
, 106–107

institutional dummies and periodization
, 110–113

Wald tests in unrestricted dynamic system
, 104–106

China’s monetary policy
, 128

Chinese economic system
, 96

Cholesky decomposition
, 107

Circulation capital
, 81–82

Citizen bourgeoisie
, 218

Citizens’ Revolution
, 197–198

anti-oligarchic “new deal” of
, 207–208

citizen bourgeoisie and reformist technocracy
, 218

cycle
, 214–215

dependent economy
, 198–203

economic dynamics
, 215–217

project of transition to socialism of
, 203

regaining Sovereignty of country
, 203–207

reinforced planning
, 209–210

renewal of social policies
, 208–209

social and political dynamics
, 217–218

transformation of “productive matrix” and limits
, 210–214

Civilization
, 141

Climate catastrophe
, 132

Closed economy, military–industrial complex in
, 88–89

Coalition presidentialism
, 225

Cold War
, 88, 126

Colonial corporation
, 43

Colonization
, 133

Colonizing machine
, 41

Commission for Integral Audit of Public Credit (CAIC)
, 203

Commodity
, 4

cycles
, 201

Communist Party of China
, 124

Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)
, 165

Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)
, 142, 149

Competitiveness
, 150

Concentration of capital
, 40

Concentration to centralization
, 43–44

Conceptualización
, 166

Concrete labor dematerialization
, 7–8

Conflict
, 22, 29, 87, 217

Conscious action
, 21–22

Consciousness
, 28–32

Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (CDES)
, 227

Consumerist drive
, 85

Contamination
, 83

Contemporary imperialism
, 22

Content
, 79–80, 86

Cooperative economy
, 132

Copenhagen climate summit
, 26

Corporate imperialism, Engels additions to Volume 3 on
, 47–48

Corporate surplus profits

absolute rent in Marx
, 52–53

cheaper labor as extension of absolute rent
, 53

differential rent in Marx
, 50–51

differential technological rents as surplus profits
, 51–52

rent as
, 50

Corporations
, 42

socialist strategy for
, 39

COVID-19 epidemic
, 129, 131

Credit
, 90

system
, 49

Crisis

financial globalization in
, 126–128

and imperialism
, 13

of World Economy
, 186–187

Cuba

imperialism’s unrelenting aggression effect on Cuba’s ability
, 168–172

inherent conflict between imperialism and transition to socialism
, 163–167

six decades of imperialism’s aggression against Cuba’s project to build socialism
, 167–168

Cuban revolution
, 25

Cutting-edge technology
, 84

De-dollarization
, 89

Dead labor
, 81

Debt crisis
, 186

Delinking
, 127

Dematerialization of concrete labor
, 7–8

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
, 157

Juche
, 158–160

non-State-based socialism
, 162

Songun principle
, 157–158, 161

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)
, 142

August Revolution and founding of
, 141–143

Dependent economy
, 198

dependent structures of Ecuador and structural heterogeneity
, 198–199

external decision centers
, 200

long-term behavior of Ecuadorian economy
, 200–201

medium term dynamics
, 201–203

Destruction

consumption of means of
, 85–88

Destructive consumption

of means of consumption
, 82–83

of means of production
, 84–85

of nature
, 83–84

Development experiment
, 223

Digital revolution
, 15

Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment
, 223–224

conflictive relationship between Dilma Rousseff Government and National Congress
, 228–234

elements
, 225

Lula da Silva government’s adaptive strategy
, 225–228

Doi Moi (renewal) process
, 147–151

Domestic value
, 66

Double movement
, 132

Dutch disease
, 201

Dynamic structural model
, 100

Early deindustrialization
, 187

Ecological civilization
, 132–135

Ecological crisis
, 26

Ecological degeneration
, 132

Econometric modeling framework
, 99–104

Economic action capital
, 23

Economic crises
, 124–125

Economic dynamics
, 215–217

Economic globalization
, 59–60

Economic rationality
, 91–92

Economic renovation policy
, 147

Economic systems
, 129

Economic transformations in Venezuela
, 187–189

Economic value added (EVA)
, 49

Economism
, 23, 28

Economy
, 130, 133

Ecuador
, 198, 205

dependent structures and structural heterogeneity
, 198–199

Ecuadorian economy
, 198

long-term behavior of
, 200–201

Efficiency-seeking strategy
, 54

Emerging economies
, 133

End of work
, 85

Equality
, 141

European Union (EU)
, 30

Exchange rate deviation index (ERDIi)
, 64

Exchange value
, 62, 83

Exclusive global financial regime
, 128–129

External decision centers
, 200

External vulnerability
, 201

Extreme monetary policies
, 22

Extremism
, 25–26

Facebook
, 83

Faux frais
, 12, 13–14

Fictitious capital
, 16, 40, 48–50, 86, 89–91

Fictitious wealth
, 86

Final exports (FX)
, 69

Finance
, 16

Financial assassins
, 200

Financial assets
, 124

Financial capital
, 78

Financial globalization in crisis
, 126–128

Financial markets
, 129

Financialization
, 50, 124, 131

of economy
, 78

Fixed capital
, 85–86

Foreign capital
, 124

Foreign direct investment (FDI)
, 180

Foreign policy
, 153–154

Form
, 81–84

Fraternity
, 141

French Revolution
, 25

Geopolitics
, 130

Global economic depression
, 23

Global value chains (GVCs)
, 59–62

country’s classification in geographical regions
, 75

dimension of value transfers
, 67–71

unequal exchange model with
, 62–67

Gonghak
, 159

Google
, 83

Governance
, 132, 135

Granger causality tests in bivariate VAR models
, 106–107

Great Depression
, 91–92

Greater Brazil Plan
, 229

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
, 67, 85, 98–99

Grundrisse
, 78

Hegelianism
, 4

Historical categories of capitalism
, 3

Ho Chi Minh
, 142–145, 151, 153–154

Homogeneous labor
, 63–65

Household contract
, 147

Household Responsibility System
, 125

HP filter method
, 99–100

“Hug-them-to-death” approach
, 167

Human capital
, 207

Human Development Index (HDI)
, 150

Hyper-centralization
, 169

of process of transition to socialism
, 169–170

Iberian colonization
, 198

Ideology
, 130

Imperialism, 3, 164 (see also Capitalism)

aggression against Cuba’s project to build socialism
, 167–168

crisis and
, 13

economic struggle and political struggle
, 22–25

politics
, 25–28

seven dimensions of socialism
, 32–35

spontaneity vs. consciousness
, 28–32

unrelenting aggression effect on Cuba’s ability
, 168–172

Independency
, 158

Individual capital
, 80, 91

Industrialization
, 124

Institutional dummies and periodization
, 110–113

Institutional paralysis
, 211–212

Insurance
, 80

International crisis (2008)
, 224

International division of labor
, 59–62

International economic cooperation
, 149

International Institutions
, 130

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 67

International monetary system
, 62

International organization of Labor (ILO)
, 67

International value (IV)
, 65

Investment Program in Logistics
, 229

Investment Support Program
, 229

Juche
, 158–160

Juntian mianfu
, 124

Knowledge society
, 211

Knowledge workers
, 61

Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of)
, 157

Labor
, 9–10, 22

abstract
, 4, 17

in capitalism
, 62

international division of labor
, 59–62

productive
, 78–80

in trade-related work
, 79

unproductive
, 78–80

Labour Party
, 30

Lagrange multiplier tests (LM tests)
, 105

Land redistribution
, 124

Land Revolution (1949)
, 124

Left-wing
, 25

Legal conveyancing
, 79

Lenin, Moreno
, 22–23, 28, 31, 35, 47, 215

Liberalization
, 60

Liberation
, 181

Liberty
, 141

Liquidity swap agreement
, 129

Living labor and unproductive consumption
, 81–82

Log-likelihood function
, 105

Logical categories of capitalism
, 3

Long-term behavior of Ecuadorian economy
, 200–201

Lula da Silva government’s adaptive strategy
, 225–228

Lulism
, 224

Lulista
, 228–229

Lyomyon
, 158

Macro-economic stability
, 148

Mao, Zedong
, 125

Market

economy
, 152

market-seeking strategies
, 54

Marx’s approach in Capital
, 4

Marx’s arresting ambiguity
, 44–46

Marx’s Capital
, 40

Marxism
, 28

Marxist approach
, 62

multinational investment strategies
, 53–54

preliminary exemplars of
, 53

two British neo-colonial corporations
, 54–55

Marxist theory
, 40

Material wealth
, 83

Materialized labor and unproductive consumption
, 81–82

Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE)
, 102

Medida Provisória (MP)
, 229

Medium term dynamics
, 201–203

Military Keynesianism
, 87

Military Superiority
, 130

Military–industrial complex in closed economy
, 88–89

Ministry of Coordination of Production, Employment and Competitiveness (MCPEC)
, 211

M–M′ schema
, 16

Modern “imperialism”
, 164

Monetary expression of international value (MEIV)
, 65, 66

Monetary markets
, 129

Money
, 16

Monopoly capital
, 179, 184–186

Multinational corporate imperialism
, 55–56

Bakan’s “NewCorporation
, 40–41

centralization of capital as threshold of revolution
, 46–47

from concentration to centralization
, 43–44

deeper into Capital
, 43

Engels additions to Volume 3 on corporate imperialism
, 47–48

fictitious capital
, 48–50

Marx’s arresting ambiguity
, 44–46

preliminary exemplars of Marxist approach
, 53–55

rent as corporate surplus profits
, 50–55

review of two recent contributions
, 40

socialism
, 39–40

Whyte’s Corporate Ecocide
, 41–43

Multinational corporations
, 60

Multinational investment strategies
, 53–54

National Assembly (NA)
, 151–152

National Bank for Economic and Social Development
, 229

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
, 96, 98

National Congress
, 228

conflictive relationship between Dilma Rousseff Government and
, 228–234

National Development and Reform Commission
, 124

National Security
, 130

Natural resources
, 83

seeking
, 54

Negotiator nationalism
, 218

Neo-colonialism
, 42

Neocolonies
, 24

Neoliberalism
, 197

Netflix
, 83

New Cold War amid pandemic
, 129–131

Nominal labor productivity
, 65

Non-financial assets
, 124

Non-material commodity
, 80

Non-State enterprises
, 148

Non-State-based socialist mode of production
, 162

North Korean research community
, 160

Obscurantism
, 142

Oil surplus
, 183

Open economy
, 88–89

Open policy
, 124

Order condition
, 102

Over-accumulation
, 84

Pandemic, new Cold War amid
, 129–131

Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB)
, 226

Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)
, 223–224

Party (communist)
, 124–125

Peasant household rationality, 139fn

Peasants
, 125

Peemedebismo
, 226

Penn effect
, 62, 69

Penn World Tables (PWT)
, 96

People’s Republic of China
, 96

Periodization, institutional dummies and
, 110–113

Peripheral industrial development
, 60

Permanent inventory method (PIM)
, 97, 103

Perverse growth
, 198

Physiological expenditure, abstract labor and
, 5

Plano Brasil Maior (PMB)
, 229

Plano de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC)
, 227

Political crisis in Venezuela
, 187–189

Political dynamics
, 217–218

Political system
, 151–153

Political work
, 86

Politics
, 25–28

Popular learning campaign
, 142

Post-capitalist economic rationality

capitalism without accumulation of capital
, 89–91

conceptualizing productive and unproductive labor
, 78–80

consumption of means of destruction
, 85–88

destructive consumption of means of consumption
, 82–83

destructive consumption of means of production
, 84–85

destructive consumption of nature
, 83–84

living labor vs. materialized labor and unproductive consumption
, 81–82

military–industrial complex in closed economy
, 88–89

productive and unproductive labor in service sector
, 80–81

transition to new economic rationality
, 91–92

Post-Fordist capitalism
, 16

Poverty eradication
, 132

Praxeology
, 91

Pre-capitalist

production techniques
, 181

societies
, 9–10

Price of production
, 51, 53

Private capital
, 89

Privatization process
, 188

Production process rationalization
, 5–7

Productive labor, 10–13, 78–80 (see also Abstract labor)

in service sector
, 80–81

“Productive matrix” transformation and limits
, 210

definition of project and institutional paralysis
, 211–212

developmentalist fantasy facing industrial and technological dependence
, 213–214

eclectic project
, 210–211

public policies for transforming productive matrix
, 212–213

Productivity
, 84, 150

Profit maximization
, 84

Profit rate
, 96

calculation
, 96–99

Profits
, 78

Programa de Investimento em Logística (PIL)
, 229

Programa de Sustentação de Investimentos (PSI)
, 229

“Progressive” reformism
, 24

Provisional measure (PM)
, 229

Public policies for transforming productive matrix
, 212–213

Puhan Rural community case
, 137–138

Purchasing power parity (PPP)
, 62–63

Quantitative Easing
, 129

Racial divisions
, 34

Racism
, 24

Radical reform approach
, 42

Rank condition
, 102

Rationality
, 82

Real socialism
, 89

“Reconstruct” capitalist society
, 4

Reform strategy
, 39

Reformist technocracy
, 218

Reinforced planning
, 209–210

Renovation policies
, 149

Rent as corporate surplus profits
, 50–55

Reproductive cycle of capital
, 78

Revolution
, 25, 28

Revolutionary activism
, 25

Revolutionary party
, 29

Revolutionary theory
, 22

Ricardian approach
, 4

Risk-internalizing mechanism
, 133

Robotics
, 85, 91

Rule-based socialist state
, 151–153

Rural revitalization
, 125

Rural society
, 125

Rural vitalization strategy
, 132–133

Sannong
, 125

Security services
, 86

Self-evolution
, 153

Self-reliance capacity
, 150

Self-transformation
, 153

Semi-skilled workers
, 30

Servility
, 26

Shareholder value
, 49

Social democracy
, 28

Social Development Council
, 227

Social dynamics
, 217–218

Social policy
, 148

Social reproduction process
, 80

Social stabilization
, 125

Socialism
, 164

August Revolution and founding of DRV
, 141–143

of Citizens’ Revolution
, 203–210

corporate reform
, 40

in Cuba
, 163–167

Doi Moi (renewal) process and socialist-oriented market economy
, 147–151

foreign policy
, 153–154

on political system and rule-based socialist state
, 151–153

seven dimensions of
, 32–35

six decades of imperialism’s aggression against Cuba’s project to build
, 167–168

thirty years of resistance for national independence
, 143–145

two difficult decades after Wars
, 145–147

in Vietnam
, 141

Socialist alternative path
, 131–132

Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV)
, 145

Socialist revolution
, 23

Socialist strategy for corporations
, 39

Socialist transformation in China

big country, small peasantry
, 124–126

ecological civilization
, 133–135

exclusive global financial regime
, 128–129

financial globalization in crisis
, 126–128

new Cold War amid pandemic
, 129–131

Puhan Rural community
, 137–138

socialist alternative path
, 131–132

strategy of rural vitalization
, 132–133

Zhoujiazhuang Commune
, 135–137

Socialist-oriented market economy
, 147–151

Socially equalized labor, abstract labor and
, 8–9

Songun principle
, 157–158

Spectacular economic development
, 83–84

Spontaneity
, 28–32

Stakeholder capitalism
, 40

“Star Wars” program
, 89

State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
, 148

Strategic hamlets
, 144

Structural reform
, 128

Structural vector autoregressive models (SVAR models)
, 96, 99

Structure
, 99

economic
, 99–100

Sub-periodization, Bayesian analysis and
, 113–114

Swamp
, 24

Systemic crisis
, 23

Tax system
, 205

Taxation exemption
, 124

Technician society
, 7

Technology
, 130

Terminological relativism
, 164

Theories of Surplus-Value
, 52

Trade bourgeoisie
, 182

Trade vulnerability
, 201

Trade war
, 127

Trading
, 79

Transfer
, 80

Transformations of World Economy
, 186–187

Transition
, 6, 22

Transnational corporations
, 83, 128

Transportation
, 80

Twenty-first Century Socialism
, 198

Ultra-leftism
, 25–26

UN Security Council
, 146

UNCTAD-EORA GVCs database
, 67

Underdevelopment
, 61

Unequal exchange model with GVCs
, 62–67

United Africa Company (UAC)
, 54

United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), 36fn

Unproductive labor
, 10–13, 78–80

in service sector
, 80–81

Unrestricted dynamic system, Wald tests in
, 104–106

Unskilled workers
, 30

Urban economy
, 132

Urban land
, 124

US Federal Reserve
, 128–129

US imperialism
, 128

US Monopoly capital
, 180–183

contradictions with Chavista transition project
, 191–192

Value
, 4, 83–84

chains
, 170

price transformation
, 4

“Value-added” discourse
, 50

VAR statistical model
, 99, 101

Veblenian framework
, 51–52

Venezuela

economic transformations and political crisis in
, 187–189

World Economy, monopoly capital, and changes in Venezuela’s economic structure
, 184–186

Venezuela’s capitalist structure development
, 180–183

Venezuelan economy
, 183

Vietnam People’s Army (VPA)
, 143

Vietnam syndrome
, 145

Wage-bargaining process
, 71

Wald tests

in bivariate VAR models
, 106–107

in unrestricted dynamic system
, 104–106

Wallerstein’s world system theory
, 129

Weapons production
, 87

Whyte’s Corporate Ecocide
, 41–43

Workers Party (PT) rule
, 27

Workers’ unions
, 23

Working class
, 7, 12, 16, 23, 29, 188

World Bank (WB)
, 67

World Economy
, 184–186

crisis and transformations of
, 186–187

World Health Organization (WHO)
, 150

Xenophobia
, 24

Zhoujiazhuang Commune case
, 135–137