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teleological

From a more general point of view, the New Left condemns the reigning fetishism of growth and the teleology of ‘modernization’ in China and their disastrous social and ecological effects

—p.130 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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aporia

Any individual who is the citizen of a member-state is a European citizen. The problem is that this definition creates an aporia at the ‘aggregate’ level, which leads to the pejoration of the condition of foreigners within the Union

—p.126 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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ineluctable

In so far as the periphery contains the overwhelming majority of the world’s population, nationalism became an ineluctable phenomenon in world history

—p.116 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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spatial fix

Harvey has drawn attention to a different way of resolving crises of over-accumulation, which he refers to with the concept of ‘spatial fix’. This concept has two senses – one literal, the other metaphorical.

—p.105 The Revival of Theories of Imperialism (94) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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historical materialism

In addition, his historical materialism – like all materialisms – assigns primacy to ‘production’. From this standpoint the international system is regarded as influenced by the ‘mode of production’ that obtains in the given epoch.

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—p.101 The Revival of Theories of Imperialism (94) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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