POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Security Dilemma, Classical Marxism, Global Financial System
13 Oct 2012
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Midterm only on this lecture and before that and reading from last week and before that. Marxism is still around in every country because there is in some way still marxism. We still have marxism parties and still existing from historical times. It exists in multiple assets through marxism as a government philosophy of cuba, china, and north korea. Second, marxism exists as a philosophy of history as history unfolds, (teleological meaning an inevitable end) it"s all about economic systems to a socialist utopian. Third, is model of politics of ir. Even though it"s on the wane as a philosophy, it"s still relevant today. It gives us a number of aspects on ir that is different from realist, liberalism and other ir theories. Marxism begins with the writings of marx. Classical marxism (old school marxism) is historical theory. Liberalism and realism is older but marxism is a historical theory.
