The roots of Cheap Nature and its double register – economic exploitation
and geocultural domination – are found in modern imperialism. Imperialism is the
bourgeoisie’s preferred mode of class formation because it more readily brings to bear
the military and juridical power of states, who must pursue “cheap” class formation to
pay the bankers and create good business environments. Imperialism doesn’t happen
for free. It’s financed by bankers, not taxes – which go to paying the bankers in a horrific
alchemy of world money, world power, and world nature (Patel & Moore 2017; Arrighi
1994; Antonacci 2021). It is a procedure of domination aimed at advancing the rate of
profit and resolving the problem of surplus capital endemic to capitalism.
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