POLC90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Modernization Theory, Eurocentrism, Proletariat
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To reveal the truth about the world is to lay a foundation for changing it owena sutclifte (1972), (studies in imperialism) Imperialism can be an agent of progress by destabilizing traditional societies: capitalism is a necessary stage in the progressive evolution to socialist development. The bourgeoisies own the means of production; the proletariat has to survive in the ways available. The more the worker produces, the less he has to consume . Prescriptions for change: capitalist expansion in the short term, then socialism in the long term. It can explain capitalist success in the third world. Structuralist look at the underlying structures and how they affect policy. Structuralism: suggests that structural relationships have a powerful logic that shapes and constrains the identities, aspirations, and actions of the actors. Barrington moore (1966): the social origins of dictatorship and democracy . Bourgeois revolution liberal democracy (britain, france, usa) Revolutions from above fascism (germany + japan)
