POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Andrew Linklater, Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

Marx"s work retains its relevance despite the collapse of the communist party rule in the former. Of particular importance is marx"s analysis of capitalism which has yet to be bettered. Marxist analysis of international relations aim to reveal the hidden workings of global capitalism. These hidden workings provide the context in which international events occur. Marx himself provided little in terms of a theoretical analysis of ir. His ideas have been interpreted and appropriated in a number of different and contradictory ways, resulting in a number of competing schools of marxism. Underlying these different schools are several common elements that can be traced back to. Marxist theorists have consistently developed an analysis of the global aspects of international capitalism an aspect acknowledged by marx, but not developed in capital. World-systems theory can be seen as a direct development of lenin"s work on imperialism and the latin american dependency school.