Recitation 23.12.2019
the major marxist assumption • ideas don’t drive
history but economic patters • historical change does not occur bc of enlightenment ideas, rather are enlightenment ideas a cause of economic change
• things as culture, politiclas base only
reflection of economic base • the social world is conflictual
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• international society also class conflict
• exploiters vs exploited
• marks sees
as existent system as unequal • realism and liberalism do not question inequalities
• marxism normative analysis
• liberalism and
realsim in order to credit
future world development • for
Marxism to change world dev
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• Intelectual dev:
• Lenins work is primary unlike Marx who seems automatic unity, harmony btw workers of all countries
• Lenin makes differentiation btw workers of poor countries and rich countries • Lenin CORE COUNTRIES pacify their workers • in
Lenis theory of important world politics about expand expl. about stability of internal affairs
-Dependency theories •
Wallenstein : rise and fall of different world system
• in orde to understand system core periphery distinction
also ads semi periphery 70
• core periphery theory only one strand mainly focuses on economic school, prioritises economy determinism
• Gramscian school • although economic base has great importance we
cannot neglect superstructure • historic bloc interplay btw base and superstructure , for gramscian theory we have to look at this interaction in order to change world dev.
• we have to look at hegemony of these powers
• hegemony created by coercive and consent
• ability to create concept implies that the hegemony makes others believe
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