Marxism Flashcards
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Definition
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‘Marxism is a critical approach that stresses the importance of class conflict in understanding global politics’
2
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What does Marx argue?
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Marx argues the ‘driver of historical change is the relations of production’
3
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Marxist view on the international?
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Modern state system and industrialisation were not natural occurrences
4
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Quote on the Cold War and it’s association to Marxism
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‘The collapse of the USSR had a deep impact not just on the international order, but the ideological arena of world politics itself’.
Gamble, 1999
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What does world systems theory argue
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Argues history is a cycle of hegemonic capitalist cores which relies on the division of labour between richer and poorer countries
