POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Civil Society, Class Consciousness, Communicative Action
1 Mar 2014
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Pol 2103 e - intro to international relations & global politics - joseph roman - 05 jan. 20. Marxism & ir (almost the entirety of this section is not on exam, but for far below) Historical materialism: we know the world based on how societies produce things. The means of production (mop), i. e. the equipment used to make goods, determines the relations of production (rop), i. e. how classes relate to each other. The mop & the rop are always in tension with each other. The mop is subject to change & to fully take advantage of this, the rop has to be transformed. Since capitalism is so dynamic, the mop are likely to change. The mop & the rop are the economic base of society, or what marxists refer to as simply the base . Changes in the base lead to wider changes in society. The legal, political, & cultural institutions constitute the superstructure.
