Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization - Themes and Annotations from Selected Works of E. San Juan, Jr.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction

The Problematic of Postcolonialism

Enlightenment and Empire

Enlightenment to Neoliberal Globalization

The Present Task

References

2 Background to Colonialism

Early Capitalism as Subject of Study

Colonialism and Racism

Capitalism and the State

References

3 The American Empire in the Pacific

Justifications and Rationalizations

Exploration of the Pacific, and the Pathology of Violence: The Case of the Malolo Massacre

The Claim to Exceptionalism, Pretext to Imperialism

1898—The Nexus of Global Events: The Spanish–American War of May 1898, the Philippine Revolution of June 1898, and the Expansion of the US Empire

References

4 Denials and Betrayals, Conquest and Capitulation

The State of the Philippine Revolution at the Point of US Intervention

The Assassination of Bonifacio, the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, and Exile

The Manipulation and Betrayal of Aguinaldo

Aguinaldo Returns from Exile, Proclaims Philippine Independence

Dewey’s Plausible Deniability

References

5 The Philippine–American War, 1899–1913, and the US Counterinsurgency and Pacification Campaign

Pacification of a People “Sitting in Darkness”

Racial Dimension of Pacification

Pacification of Moroland

Deluding the Sulu Sultanate

Dividing and Conquering the Maguindanao and Lanao Sultanates

Laying the Foundation for Racialized State Violence

Laying the Foundation for Colonial Education

References

6 The Cold War and the Post-Cold War Hegemony

Hegemony Based on Capital Accumulation and Labor Extraction

State of Permanent Warfare

Principles and Institutional Structures of Neoliberal Globalization

Uneven Development and Neoliberal Globalization

References

7 The Racialized State

Knowledge Production and the Cold War in the United States

Rise of the Neoliberal Pedagogy

The Fetish of Multiculturalism

Denial of Historical Materialism and the Postcolonial Retreat

The Problematization of Race Without Class in the United States

The Recovery of Class, and the Class Basis of Racism

Prognosis

References

8 Teleology in History and Intellectual Responsibility

The Contemporary State of the World

Unprecedented Global Inequality

The Environmental Crisis

Recapping Neoliberalism’s Rules, and Implications

US Militarism and the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

Prying Open “Emerging Markets”: Corporations as Imperial Tools

Contesting Empire and the Role of Emancipatory Movements

References

References

Index