POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Authoritarianism, Bourgeoisie
11 Jan 2013
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Countries turning from authoritarianism and apartide and communism to democracy. Not just the end of cold war, but end of history as such like man kinds ideological evolution, with demo as the final form of human government, so democracy is highest achievement. All things designed towards end result, so cause for all that exists. History is not just a random amalgam of events, it builds towards historical end. Each phase of eco destruction within it had a seed towards its own destruction. Capitalism has too much surplus and collapse with over production and leads to socialism, Marx has teleogical conception of history, which ends in communism. Marxist frame of historical analysis, uses it to argue, and free market is the end of history. Takes framework that marx is famous for, dialectic materialism, argue that its democracy and free market that are the end of history.
