POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Andre Gunder Frank, World-Systems Theory, Dependency Theory
7 Dec 2015
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Mercantilism and late industrialization: goal of economic activity is building a strong state > gold or trade surplus. Late industrialization requires a strong state (alexander. Compare experience of britain, france, germany, japan, us, Marxism: politics and economics are inter-related: capitalism and exploitation. Bourgeoisie (ruling class) v. proletariat (everyone else) Forces of production v. relations of production; mode of production. States only relatively autonomous reflect the interest of the ruling class. Expansion necessary for capitalism: colonialism, imperialism, globalization. Lenin: uneven development: marxist: the international capitalist system is defined by an exploitative relationship between core states (global north) and periphery (global south) and semi periphery. Development of core and underdevelopment of the periphery are flip sides of the same coin. Relationship between core and periphery is one of dependency. Empirical predictions: conflict over markets; imperialism; diversionary wars; collusion of capitalist classes; underdevelopment and dependency; mic.
