POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Antonio Gramsci, Proletariat
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Marxist experiment- the breakup of the soviet bloc encouraged the possibility of defending. Marx had predicted that revolution and the transition to socialism that would occur first in most advanced capitalist societies. Interaction between base and superstructure is what matters: robert w. cox (canadian) wrote: theory is always for some one, and for some purpose. More concerned with issues relating to the subfield of international political economy. More involved with questions concerning international society, international ethics and security. Developed from the frankfurt school- constructs of emancipation differs. Move towards the situation in which citizens share the same duties and obligations towards non- citizens as they do towards fellow citizens: frankfurt school- left-wing german jews forced into exile to the usa which focused on 1) Instead of economic concerns, they were focused more on culture, bureaucracy, social basis, nature of authoritarianism, structure of the family, and concepts of rationality and knowledge, 2)
