Global Capital, National State, and the International 1

摘要

The article revisits the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) debate on the national state and the global economy, and concludes with an appeal to internationalism. Its purpose is to introduce this debate to a new readership. Contemporary analyses of globalisation and the state tackle issues that were of key importance to this debate—yet the specific critical insights that the CSE debate brought to the fore are lost in a world in which ideology is in the process of producing itself. The article argues that regardless of fashion, these insights are as relevant now as they were then.