C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Raymond Williams, Capital: Critique Of Political Economy, Desertion
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Homework discussion: reading: the country and the city, ch 24: the new. "in current descriptions of the world, the major industrial societies are often described as "metropolitan". At first glance, this can be taken as a simple description of their internal development in which the metropolitan cities have become dominant. But when we look at it more closely, in its real historical development we find wat is meant is an extension to w=the whole world of that division of function which in the. 19th century was a division of functions within a single state. " Prima vista description (at first glance) -- "real historical development" Some regions and classes have to listen to what the metropolitan societies say. Opposed to rural and underdeveloped countries that are to be colonized. The underdeveloped societies are mainly agricultural and under- industrialized. Drawing food and raw materials from area of supply.
