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In this analysis it is argued that in the Marxian perspective not only the creation of the world market, but the globalization belongs to the innate tendencies of the capitalist mode of production. The ‘relative world market’ was first for Marx a precondition or a base for the developing capitalist mode of production, while the ‘modern world market’ was characterized by Marx as a result of the developed capitalist economy. This transformation of the world market corresponded to the qualitative development of the capitalist mode of production from the manufacture production to the industrial production.
In the historical perspective it is argued that the transformation of the capitalist economy to the knowledge-based economy in recent years accelerates the globalizing tendency of the capitalist economy.
Furthermore the discussions on the capitalist world market that happened in the 1970s and 1980s in West Germany are to be critically reviewed in oder to show that each participant at the discussions has his own version on the relation between the capitalist economy and the world market. To them all, however, one thing is common; they all forget the nature of the capital as an exploitative relation that makes it necessary to territorially ‘divide and rule’ the different nations. So the debate came to end without any fruitful theoretical consequences.
It is yet very interesting to examine the recent different interpretations about the globalization. The one considers the globalization as a ‘gospel’, and the others as a horror. In this analysis it is argued that neither the neoliberal glorification of the globalization nor the left-biased objection to the globalization can gain solid empirical grounds.
In the last chapter the long-standing discussions on the changing status of the nation states in the process of the globalization are to be critically reviewed. It is emphasized that in the process of the globalization the nation state lose not only his political power against ‘global players’, but it gains new roles, for example as a member of international organizations. It is also tried to show some implications for the strategic role of the nation state for the development of the knowledge-based economy.

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이 글은 산업경제 단계에 구성된 맑스의 세계시장론을 현대 지식경제 단계로 연결시키기 위한 시도이다. 우선 맑스가 서술한 상업의 ‘문명화작용’을 약술한 다음 자본주의의 내재적 경향에 의해 세계시장이 형성되는 과정을 변증법적으로 서술하고자 한다. 이어서 지식경제의 발전에 따라 세계시장에서 나타나는 새로운 동향이 분석된다. 나아가 1970년대 이후 서독에서 진행된 세계시장 논쟁을 비판적으로 정리함과 아울러 지식기반경제의 발전에 따른 세계화의 새로운 질적 변화를 설명하고자 했다. 끝으로 세계화의 진전에 따른 국민국가의 위상변화에 관한 논쟁을 비판적으로 고찰하고 지식경제의 발전을 위한 국민국가의 역할 변화에 관한 시사점을 도출하고자 했다.