Class Beyond the Nation-State

Abstract

Foreign exploitation has been a recurrent theme in radical analyses of centre periphery relations. We suggest a new, class-analytical way to analyse the relations between centre and periphery which involves specifying concepts of class (including the space and time dimensions of class processes) and, especially, foreign exploitation different from those that exist in current radical literature. We also discuss the potential role of this type of class analysis for policy debates and social struggles in the Third World.