Analyzing concepts: Imperialism and Globalization. (applied to the Argentine case)

Abstract

This article attempts to address a theoretical question that has profound practical (political) implications. We will try to show the usefulness of the category of analysis "imperialism" within the theoretical framework of historical materialism to refer to the phenomena of concentration and centralization of capital, of generalization of the rules of the capitalist game in its maximum historical expression reached on a planetary level, and particularly how these phenomena are expressed in Argentina today. We will put the concept of "globalization" on the dock (does it replace it? Are they synonymous?). We will try to analyze from which interests the concept of "globalization" so in vogue among the spheres of "the scientific" and the "political" is useful.