2001年“9.11”事件之后的几年内,迅速扩散的“新帝国主义”理论认为,在帝国主义内部竞争不断增强的背景下,美国已经着手扩张全球帝国以抵消其霸权的下降。需要对该理论所依据的假设加以剥离才能发现21世纪全球社会力量和政治力量的根本所在。基于列宁和鲁道 Within a few years after the “9.11” incident of 2001, the rapidly proliferating theory of “new imperialism” holds that the United States has begun to expand its global empire so as to offset the decline of its hegemony in the context of the growing imperialist internal competition. The assumptions on which this theory is based need to be peeled off to discover the very essence of the global social and political forces in the 21st century. Based on Lenin and Lutheran