POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialectic, For Marx, Overproduction
10 Dec 2015
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Four key assumptions of economic structuralism:assumption number one. In order to understand international relations, one must begin with the structure of the global system. Other levels of analysis are not neglected, however, they operate within a speci c understanding of the structure of the global system. Economic structuralists argue that the starting point for analysis is the capitalist world system. The distribution of capital determines the system for economic structuralists. They understand the system as comprised of capital rich and capital poor countries. The system is therefore de ned by economic structures (such as economic classes) We can only understand the current structure by tracing the historical evolution of the global system. The most important historical factor and the de ning characteristic of the system as a whole is capitalism (private ownership of the means of production and a free market)
