哈维与史密斯关于新帝国主义的论争

On Argument between Harvey and Smith about New Imperialism

对新帝国主义的讨论一直是马克思主义经久不衰的核心话题,也是当代国外马克思主义的前沿问题。戴维·哈维和约翰·史密斯是研究新帝国主义的代表性人物。哈维将权力的“领土逻辑”和“资本逻辑”支配之下的剥夺性积累看作新帝国主义的实质,并以全球财富由西方流向东方为根据,说明帝国主义竞争力在不断下降。与之相反,史密斯认为,在全球南方的劳动力进入全球产业后备军的过程中,全球劳动力套利已成为当今生产全球化的关键驱动力和新帝国主义的实质,而且帝国主义掠夺全球南方的历史并没有改变,相反当下帝国主义的剥削愈发残酷。相较而言,史密斯的新帝国主义论对我们认识当下帝国主义的实践及其实质,具有更为重要的借鉴意义。

The discussion about the new imperialism has always been the core topic of Marxism,and it is also the forefront of the contemporary foreign Marxism.David Harvey and John Smith are the representative figures in the study of the new imperialism.Harvey regards the accumulation by dispossession under the control of the logic of territory and that of capital of power as the essence of the new imperialism,and based on the fact that the global wealth flows from the West to the East,he thinks the competitiveness of the imperialism has been declining.On the contrary,Smith believes that in the process of the labor forces from the global south entering into the global industrial reserve army,the global labor arbitrage has become the key driving force of today s globalization of production and so the essence of the new imperialism.Moreover,the history of imperialist plundering the global south has not changed.On the contrary,the imperialist exploitation is becoming increasingly cruel.In comparison,Smith s theory of the new imperialism has more important significance for us to understand the practice and essence of the present imperialism.