National Space and Global Space under Capitalism
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Drawing on the Marxist notion of commodity value, this article seeks to establish the difference between national space and global space. The idea of national space is anchored in the notion of use-value, whereas the idea of global space is bound to the exchange of commodities (exchange-use). Alternating between protectionism and free market, the cyclical nature of capitalism introduces a tendency to accentuate either the national space or the global space. Linked to cyclical crises in the free market dynamics, the crisis of neoliberalism enables the development of effective resistances to the system in the weak areas of the capitalist system such as Latin America.
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