Marxism Flashcards
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World systems theory
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Can be seen as a direct development of Lenins work on imperialism and the Latin American dependency school
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What is Marxism
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Aims to reveal the hidden workings of global capitalism which provide the context in which international events occur
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What is politics seen as
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Struggle over shaping the kind of world we live in
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What are humans seen as
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As productive agents that in their interactions continually remake the world and themselves
-producers and products of historical processes
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What is capitalism based on?
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Class relations between capital and wage labour
Workers sell their labour to members of capital owning class
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US and Iraq
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Access to oil is important of US strategic actions in global politics
Iraq holds oil reserves
