POL 13000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Geopolitics, Friedrich Engels, Industrial Revolution

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 13000
• Professor: Mckenzie Johnson

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Objectives: understand marxist perspective, understand major organizing concepts, marxism, dependency theory, core/periphery, capitalism/communism, karl marx. Karl marx: (cid:862)the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ist (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifesto. (cid:863, 1848 by karl marx and friedrich engels, new modes of production, communication, and distribution create enormous wealth, however, wealth was not equally distributed, capitalism, communism, socialism. Key terms: socialism: no! social democracy originated in the early twentieth century as a strategy to improve capitalism rather than replace, social democrat, privately produced wealth, heavy taxation, government spending and regulation, wealth redistribution to address income inequality. Marxism and ir: marxists emphasize the importance of class conflict for understanding social relations. Marxism and ir: exploitation should inevitably lead to working class revolution, the working-class revolution will lead to the final stage of history: communism, which. Ma(cid:396)(cid:454) (cid:449)(cid:396)ote, (cid:862)is the solutio(cid:374) to the (cid:396)iddle of histo(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) itself as this solutio(cid:374). (cid:863) Marxism and ir: class as the unit of analysis.