Theorizing Capitalist Imperialism for an Anti-Imperialist Praxis

How does one craft an explicitly left theory of anti-imperialism that would animate anti-imperialist praxis? World-systems analysis has a long history engagement with theories from Leninist perspective. For the founding fathers World-Systems Analysis—Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, Samir Amin, and Andre Gunder Frank—anti-imperialism was early central concern. Each four founders world-systems reads Lenin’s imperialism seriously, but each slightly different interpretations. One significant commonality they share is adopt periodization imperialism, seeing as emergent in late 19th century part particular stage within historical development capitalism. However, I will argue this essay, perhaps it be preferable to temporally expand concept imperialism. Walter Rodney’s “capitalist imperialism,” shall show similarly calls into question. Thereby, putting Rodney conversation Frank, leads me further historicize world-systems’ global thereby refining existing levying build stronger praxis.