Abstract

Standard accounts of the emergence of the modern global economic order posit its origins in the expansion of markets or in the changing nature of the social relations of capitalist production. Each fails to acknowledge the significance of colonial relations underpinning these processes, as formative of, and continuous with them. This is a consequence of the dominant understandings (across different theoretical perspectives) of capitalism as a distinct and self-contained economic formation of modernity, the origins of which are seen to be endogenous to Europe and north America. As such, there is a concomitant failure to acknowledge, or regard as significant, the global connections forged through colonialism that are the condition of capitalist-modernity. I argue for the need to recognize the significance of historical colonial relations to both the establishment and continued reproduction of global political economy. In this article, I seek to reorient our understanding of the histories that underpin theories of capitalism to be inclusive of colonial relations and for the framework of analysis to be transformed by their appropriate consideration.

摘要

现代全球经济秩序的出现的标准说明源于市场的扩张或资本主义生产的社会关系的不断变化的性质。每个人都没有意识到殖民关系的重要性，因为殖民关系是这些过程的形成和延续。这是由于资本主义作为现代性的一种独特且自成一体的经济形成而对资本主义具有主流理解（跨不同理论观点）的结果，而现代主义的起源被认为是欧洲和北美的内生性。因此，伴随而来的是没有承认或认为殖民主义是资本主义-现代性的条件而建立的全球联系，或者说是重要的。我认为有必要认识到历史殖民关系对于建立和持续再现全球政治经济的重要性。在本文中，我试图重新定位我们对支持资本主义理论的历史的理解，使其包括殖民关系，并通过适当的考虑来改变分析框架。