For their excellent comments, thanks to Rona Beresh, Mark Burwick, Claire Vergerio, @jcostalopez.bsky.social , @simontorracinta.bsky.social , @arthurduhe.bsky.social , Rose Owen, Jim Miller, Mark Frazier, Maya Adereth.

One caveat: I did not get to write the introduction or see the edits to my piece before publication, so there may be minor stylistic discrepancies, but hopefully nothing that alters the arguments too much.

One of the points I make is that there is currently no good case for subsuming the states-system to capitalism, and that in one sense, capitalism may be derivative of a specific pattern of international political ordering (not the states-system).

While some have long sought to trace every major global transformation back to the internal dynamics of capitalism, others put more emphasis on the competitive states-system we inhabit. Here, I revisit the Q of how we should think about the relationship between capitalism and the states-system

This was in part prompted by a discussion between @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @iliasalami.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social , but also by a larger set of debates that were invoking very different causes to explain an array of contemporary developments in the global economy and beyond.

Thanks Rafi!

Thanks for the kind words Jan!

Thank you Chase!

Merci beaucoup Frédéric! Très heureux de t’avoir comme lecteur!

Thank you Frieder!

Thanks Martin!

Thank you Matthew —looking forward to meeting you!