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SelectedEssaysofNigelHarris Historical Materialism Book Series EditorialBoard SébastienBudgen(Paris) DavidBroder(Rome) SteveEdwards(London) JuanGrigera(London) MarcelvanderLinden(Amsterdam) PeterThomas(London) volume146 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/hm Selected Essays of Nigel Harris FromNationalLiberationtoGlobalisation By NigelHarris Editedby AhmedShawki leiden | boston TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2017035072 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn1570-1522 isbn978-90-04-29132-4(hardback) isbn978-90-04-29133-1(e-book) Copyright2018byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopiand HoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. InmemoryofourdearfriendDuncanHallas ∵ ThankstoDorianBon,RandiJonesHensleyandCaitlinSheehanfortheirhelp ingettingthisvolumereadyforpublication. ∵ Contents Introduction:AnInterviewwithNigelHarris 1 part 1 ImperialismandtheWorldOrder 1.1 ImperialismToday 15 1.2 HowShouldWeCharacterisetheWorldOrder?Reflectionson Callinicos’sImperialismandGlobalPoliticalEconomy 58 1.3 CantheWestSurvive? 63 1.4 OnEconomicGlobalisation,Neo-liberalismandtheNatureofthe Period 76 part 2 TheStateandEconomicDevelopment 2.1 The‘ScissorsCrisis’inIndiaandChina 87 2.2 Agriculture,PeasantsandAccumulation 107 2.3 TheRevolutionaryRoleofthePeasantry 114 2.4 China:DecentralisationandDevelopment 131 2.5 NewBourgeoisies? 143 2.6 NationalismandDevelopment 160 2.7 TheWar-MakingStateandPrivatisation 174 2.8 TheRiseandFalloftheConceptof‘NationalEconomic Development’ 212 viii contents part 3 IssuesinPoliticalEconomy 3.1 Food,DevelopmentandCrisis 227 3.2 Deindustrialisation 238 3.3 TheRoadfrom1910 250 3.4 TradeinEarlyIndia:ThemesinIndianHistory 266 part 4 Migration 4.1 TheNewUntouchables:TheInternationalMigrationof Labour 277 4.2 TheEconomicsandPoliticsoftheFreeMovementofPeople 309 4.3 ImmigrationandStatePower 327 4.4 TheFreedomtoMove 336 part 5 JournalismandShorterPieces 5.1 Japan:FromtheOtherSideoftheHill 353 5.2 Nicaragua1979 362 5.3 Vietnam:OldMenRemember 367 5.4 TeheranDiary 372 5.5 Churchill:ARuling-ClassMilitant 376 5.6 TwoNotesonaVisittotheUnitedStates 383 contents ix 5.7 RipvanWinkleinChina 392 5.8 ApartheidisDead!LongLiveApartheid! 396 5.9 Korea’sNewRevolution 401 5.10 StructuralAdjustmentinRomania 404 5.11 FormsofCompulsion 414 5.12 EconomicFusion,PoliticalFission 421 5.13 Mexico’sTiananmenSquare 426 5.14 Peru:EmergingfromCrisis 432 5.15 Vietnam:BackattheBeginning 441 5.16 Lebanon:ThereisLifeafterDeath 447 5.17 Moscow’sMigrants 459 5.18 Indonesia’sYearofAnniversaries 462 5.19 TheFirstCommonwealthImmigrationAct1962:FiftyYears On 465 BibliographyofNigelHarris’sWritings 469 References 498 Index 516