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 渡辺 雅男 Masao Watanabe
市民社会の帝国主義 ——マルクスにおける概念の提起——
The Empire of Civil Society: A Reappraisal of Marx's Social Theory
2007年01月 発行

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[ Abstract ]

  This paper will attempt to search for the theoretical connection between the theory of civil society and imperialism in Marx’s original arguments. This paper will identify that it is neither globalization nor empire but imperialism that is the true issue in the global realm, and that imperialism has been constructed on the basis of a theory of society vis-à-vis a theory of state, by taking into consideration the forgotten conceptual composition of Karl Marx.
  First, the concepts of civil society and state must be differentiated. The former refers to the economic community that is established in the private realm of the economy and the latter refers to the political community that is established in the political arena of the public realm.
  Next, the paper will attempt to comparatively analyze the examples of ancient Rome, modern Spain and the British Revolution, since the modern bourgeois revolution is a unique class struggle that causes the separation of the state and the civil society.
  Moreover, the paper will also illustrate that two contrasting social circumstances are born from the anarchical condition due to the social division of labor and the tyrannical condition within the management organization, which correspond to the two contrasting world circumstances of anarchical relations among states in international relations and tyrannical conditions within one country (control over territory) within the civil society.
  Lastly, the paper will demonstrate that the logic in which imperialism surfaces within the expanding trend of civil society also simultaneously creates on the one hand political autonomy and independence among sovereign states and economic free trade relations, and on the other hand political control and dependency between sovereign states and colonies and economic exploitation and monopoly.