POL SCI 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Periphery Countries, Import Substitution Industrialization, Dependency Theory
20 Oct 2016
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Marxism: owners of capital rely on the subordination of others. Marx believed this exploitation would lead to revolt in rich capitalist countries. But lenin claimed that capitalism keeps the poor just happy enough. Marx is wrong as to where revolution will occur. World system theory: world is divided between the poor, the rich, the periphery countries (less developed) and semi-periphery countries (industrialising). Core regions produce manufactured good (they have capital & skilled labour) Most easily accessible national resources are taken away. Best farmlands were planted with export crops, not food for population. A lot of infrastructure was built for the purpose of the colonisers, not of the people. (ex. Railroads that went from mines straight to ports) Education: though it did bring some education, it was limited only to some and then many of the educated left anyway. Colonising is good for the core, but bad for the exploited periphery. So the end of colonisation should be a good thing.
