Between Colonial Racism and Global Capitalism: Japanese Repatriates from Northeast China since 1946
Author(s)
Rahbari, Reza
Abstract
An adequate understanding of the basis of Western hegemony is the key to solving the dilemma created by the clash between colonialism and traditional cultures. This is best epitomized by the emerging fundamentalist regimes and movements in the Islamic countries, because, as it will be maintained, the politics of resistance to colonialism by focusing excessively on the direct intervention of the colonial super powers has failed to address adequately the world-wide pressure from Western countries toward cultural homogenization, through which the West has continued to exercise its colonial influence. I will examine Marx’s theory of the productive power of capital, Gramsci’s concept of the ethical state and hegemony, and Foucault’s analysis of productive power. These will show that indeed there has been a general agreement among these prominent critics of the modern system of domination that the universal tendency of Western colonialism derives its force, not only from direct oppression, but more fundamentally, from the productiveness of its economic order and structures of power.
