nations, and all their international relations [is] anything else than the
expression of a particular division of labour. And must not these change
when the division of labour changes?’. This is a question rather than an
answer yet many have argued – Waltz is an example – that Marxism largely
ignored geopolitics, nationalism and war. Even the most sympathetic
reader of Marx’s work has to concede the point. There can be absolutely
no doubt that Marx believed that capitalist globalization and class
conflict would determine the fate of the modern world.