POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dambisa Moyo, Orthodox Marxism, Antonio Gramsci
18 Oct 2018
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Capitalism (way of life, not just a market and shouldn"t be reduced to that definition a political ideology, economic and political system, form of social life) Marx"s greatest critic was a disciple of his. Theory of cultural hegemony explains the lack of revolution in the west. Workers are socially disempowered to act (base & superstructure) Hegemony has both a top-down (coercion, not just military) and bottom-up (consent, coming from the bottom, the working class) means of control. Italian, imprisoned under mussolini"s fascist gov"t for his ideas. System enslaves us, even in a bottom-up/consent means of power/control. Frankfurt school (orthodox marxism doesn"t satisfy their concepts of ir, founded in 1923. Germany, rooted in philosophy/morality/etc, used reflexivity to question society, questions why there is no change don"t care why they"re being dominated by the upper class, care about change) Want to understand neo-dynamic, neo-authority (how the world functions today)
