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1、JamesPetrasReplytoCriticsRobertRhodesAlbertSzymanski’sattemptedrefutationofourthesisontherecon-solidationofUSimperialismpresentsa‘summary’whichdoesnotinfactcorrespondtowhatweactuallyargued;offersstatisticaldatathatislargelyirrelevanttotheissuesatstake;ignoresimportantaspectsofourposition;
2、andisbasedonaninadequateconceptionofsocialforces.1Letusbeginwithourargument.Wedidnotassertthat‘theUSAsufferedsomerelativelyminorsetbacksaround1970’.Onthecontrarywepointedout:‘ItwasclearthattheoldbasisofAmericanhegemonywascracking,thatnewalignmentsweredevelopingandtheoldbasisofdoingbusines
3、sonaworldscalewascomingtoanend.’2(Emphasisadded.)Ourarticlethendiscussedthe‘internaldynamic,politicalstrengthandglobalstructuralunderpinningswhichfacilitaterecoveryandreconsolida-tionofUShegemonyinglobalpolitics’.3(Emphasisadded.)WearguedthatUShegemonywasbaseduponthecapacitiesoftheAmerica
4、nimperialstate;thecharacterofclassrelationswithinnationalstates;andrelationsbetweentheUS,itserstwhilecompetitorsandthethirdworld.Manyofourpropositionshavebeensupportedbyrecentevents.4Therehas,ifanything,beenanaccelerationoftherateatwhichcountriesinthethirdworld,eventhosewithrelativelynati
5、onalisticgovernments,arebeingincorporatedintotheAmericanImperium.5NotonlyhasJapan’seconomicandstrategicdependenceontheUnitedStatescon-tinued,butintheformercaseithasincreased.OnlyenormousexportstotheUShavepreventedJapan’seconomyfromslidingintodeeperdifficulties.‘Japanremainsfirmlysubordina
6、tetoAmericanimperial-ism.’6IntheMiddleEast,Syriahasbecomeanagentofreaction,andfearofIranianimperialismhascontinued.ThustheUnitedStates,evenmorethaninthepast,remainstheprotectorofregionalstabilityandthedominantpoliticalforce.7WearguedthatdivisionsandconflictswithinEuropere-emphasizetheregi
7、on’seconomicandpoliticalde-pendenceupontheUS,8andnotedespeciallyconflictsoverenergypolicy.Whilesomeprogresshasbeenmadehere,Europeisfacedwith1AlbertSzymanski,‘IsUSImperialismResurgent?:acritiqueofPetrasandRhodes’,pp.145–51above.2JamesPetrasandRobertRhodes,‘TheReconso
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