Rationality and morality of “Economic Imperialism”

Abstract

The “economic imperialism” phenomenon inevitably affects the formation process of methodological diversity of contemporary political philosophy. The article is an attempt to understand, whether the economic imperialism is able to help political philosophy to better understand the peculiarities of political entity. Political philosophy regards the intellectual claims of economic imperialists as intellectual moments of societal production and reproduction - with all its structures based on oppression, inequality and violence. All this creates premises for its ideological critic. Exercising this function, political philosophy is realizing it in the logic of “critical theory”. This is a critique of forms and conditions of domination in a society, held at the level of cultural and theoretical apparatus. Therefore, a consequent political philosophy is always a status-quo critique, an oppositional thought - a thought in opposition to the prevailing ideas about the essence of the political entity. JEL : A 12