POLS 2940 Lecture Notes - World Trade Organization, Warsaw Pact, Financial Institution
7 Apr 2014
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Capitalism is not the cause of all the oppression, but it intersects in different/specific ways with other oppressions and enhances. Capitalism makes possible a certain range of disempowering elders and children. Currently living in a world with american heg. Marxian- society is based on class and production. Your location in the economic system determines your class. Politics is determined also by class and this structure. The state is a social institution that is produced out of the class based society. The state is the reflection of this economic relation(class-> production) hege links together elements of various classes with the institutions of state in a more or less complete way. Courts, police legeslation etc reflect the protection of this relationship between class and production (capitalism). Liberals- basic unit of society is not class, but the individual. Individuals freely enter associations and they natural seek benefits from these associations.
