Capitalism as a concept is both profound and abstract. In the real world capitalism works through the organization of states, global banks and currencies, military formations, legal structures, insurance companies and hegemonic cultural formations. In the real world it is embedded in “natural” processes described by such disciplines as geology, botany, zoology, and meteorology. In these senses imperialism is another, more concrete way of characterizing capitalism. In this class we will explore imperialism in this sense. Readings include those by Readings will include texts by Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Maurice Dobb, Robert Brenner, Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey, Sylvia Federici, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Vinay Gidwani, Andriew Liu, Adam Getachew and Jason Moore.