POLS 2920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Capital Accumulation, Dependency Theory, Postcolonialism
25 Sep 2017
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Focus on understanding the predominant economic system, as a system of production and of organization of social relations. Superstructure. (religion) help make sure the working class doesn"t revolt. Lenin - theory of imperialism ( how to go from ruling the poor to a stateless era where everyone is fairly equal. Ussr = a transition period to socialism. Lenin was trying to help working classes all over the globe. (proletarians from around the globe unite. ) Lenin loved the first world war because imperialists killed each other. All about where the capital is going and the expansion of it. Fuck free trade = the type of products countries are selling are determined by post-colonialism. If i sell a car i get 500000 apples if i sell 1000 apples i can"t get a car. The state of world politics is better understood as an expansion of the way which capitalism works as an economic system & a way of organizing society.
