The Origins of Geopolitical Economy

A large part of the theoretical under laboring that I had to do to write geopolitical economy was to investigate what later Marxists and the general Marxists tradition have actually said about this. And indeed I find that not only did Marx and Engels fully understand the centrality of nation states in capitalism but they Marx even has you know passages which I which I cite and I discuss where there is actually embedded in his ideas something that he calls the relations of producing nations. Now if you think about it what does this mean it means that there are producing so that involves the economy and there are nations which involves the politics. So there is a certain idea of geopolitical economy already there in Marx and so what I