ABSTRACT
This then raises the pitfall of a transhistorical sociological articulation of the theory
of U&CD. One consequence is a relapse into transhistorical affirmations through the
general abstraction of U&CD without exploring the actual modalities of historical
and empirical unevenness and the combination of different stages of development
within capitalism as a mode of production. As Alex Callinicos remarks when raising
these objections, ‘the work required to develop a Marxist theory of the geopolitical
lies before us’ (Callinicos and Rosenberg 2008, 106).
