What is new about the new imperialism?
That was one of the questions that I wanted to address. I’m not sure I found the complete solution to it; I identified some things. One of the things I would point out here is that for a long time I’ve been talking about the special or geographical dynamics of capital accumulation, and what I call uneven geographical development, how these molecular processes of capital flow, moving from one part of the country to another, build new spaces and geographical concentrations even within countries. When you look at the United States you see that fifty years ago, the Northeast and the Midwest were the center of everything. And then something happened; the capitalist flow went to the South and the West, and the changing dynamics of political power come out of that. I’ve always been interested in these geographical processes whereby capital is creating landscapes, sometimes knocking down landscapes and building new landscapes. This leads in many instances to issues of domination. In the ninete
