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2/1/06

Monthly Review January 2006 John Bellamy Foster ¦ The New Geopolitics of Empire

Monthly Review January 2006

The New Geopolitics of Empire
by John Bellamy Foster

Today’s imperial ideology proclaims that the United States is the new city on the hill, the capital of an empire dominating the globe. Yet the U.S. global empire, we are nonetheless told, is not an empire of capital; it has nothing to do with economic imperialism as classically defined by Marxists and others. The question then arises: How is this new imperial age conceived by those promoting it?

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