Regional Imperialist Violence

This violence flows necessarily from the transformation of monopoly capitalism into its imperialist stage: as capital concentrates in ever larger private conglomerates, the export of surplus value demands new markets, raw materials and zones of cheap labour.  In practice, this drive for accumulation subordinates entire territories to the logic of capital, converting land and people into resources to be extracted by force.  The resulting military interventions, enforced border regimes, and settler-colonial occupations are therefore not aberrations but the logical consequence of capitalist accumulation crossing its own spatial limits.