ABSTRACT
America's acrimonious relationship with communist Cuba and contemporary Islamic fundamentalist movements in today's modern or 'postmodern' capitalist world system represents the nature of this colonizer/colonized, master/slave, self/other, subject/object constituting relationship, in a 'postcolonial' context, by which capital constitutes its 'pure' liberal and national bourgeois identity, one heteronomous order attempting to rewrite and represent the ideological and practical foundations of a subject of another order. The dominant focus of world-systems analysis tends to be on the exploitative capitalist material relations among and within core and periphery states, systems integration; the point of emphasis for postcolonial thinkers like Spivak and Bhabha is on the ideological aspect or the social integration of this relation in terms of capitalist ideological domination. Bhabha through his notion of hybridity supports this 'liberal national' bourgeois viewpoint; for the Bhabhaian hybrid operates within the systemic framework of global capitalism by becoming a speaking 'other subject'.
