Lecture 4 Flashcards
What are the four main points of structuralism in IPE?
What is the main ideas of historical materialism? To who can this be linked?
How is history seen by structuralists?
What is Feudalism?
From a structuralist perspective
What is capitalism?
From a structuralist perspective
How do structuralist look at private property and market exchange?
How do structuralists think about the concept of freedoms regarding labor?
What do structuralist stress about the economy?
Maybe economy is not the right word
What is the end stage of capitalism according to Lenin?
What does contemporary mean?
Current; in the present
What is contemporary theory of imperialism?
What is the World Dependency Theory? By who was it created?
Name four main points
What is a Neo-Gramcian theory?
Who was Gramci? What were his three main beliefs?
What is the focus of Neo-Gramcian IPE?
What does Robert Cox believe about hegemony?
Name three main points
How does Neo-Gramcian IPE look at the rise of neoliberalism?
What is technology determinism? To which theory is it connected?
The idea that changes in technology determine changes in the social system.
Connected to the structuralist perspective.
What is the law of the falling rate of profit? To which theory is it connected?
Over time capitalists replace workers with machines.
Linked to the structuralist perspective.
What is the law of disproportionality? To which theory is it connected?
Capitalism is prone to instability, this causes recessions.
Linked to the structuralist perspective
What is the law of concentration? To which theory is it connected?
Capitalism becomes increasingly inequal.
Structuralist perspective
What is Capital according to Marx?
The means of production, e.g. factories.
What Class according to Marx?
The ownership, or lack, of capital
Why does Marx believe workers are oppressed?
- The rich can just survive of their capital, their workers cannot
- The rich try to limit workers unionizing, though the state, which they can control since they have more capital
- The rich also use low wage foreign workers to negociate even lower wager here
How do Marxists believe that legitimacy is created? Who theorized this idea?
Though manufacturing consent, since the powerful are able to write the history.
Chomski, Gramci & Cox are a few of these creators of this idea.
What is dependency theory?
Core, semi- & periphery.
What did Andra Gunder Frank argue with respect to his development & underdevelopment thesis?
Underdeveloped nations were not underveloped, however they became it by colonization.
What is the Modern World System (MWS)? By whom was this created?
Core, semi- & periphery, created by Wallerstein
What are critisims of the MWS?
- It it too simple, it is too deterministic and rejects choice of countries
- It has capitalism as it final stage
What is neoimperialism?
A newer, subtler version of imperialism (also used by the US)
How do liberals and structualist attribute the rise in inequality?
Liberals: increased automation
Structualists: Capitalist tendencies
