POLI 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unequal Exchange, Underconsumption, Working Animal
15 May 2016
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Begin to cut back on production, and employing people. J. a hobson : if you motify the weight structure the crisis will be resolved. V. i lenin ( marxist ) said he had good intentions but was out to lunch. Lenin: they"re not gonna pay those workers more. Disarticulation (deconstruct these societies ) vs rearticulate ( reconstruct ) Colonial division of labour (inner to outer core ) The industrial states of western europe, us and japan. These peripheral areas produce primary products, minerals , taken out of the land using human labour power and animal power. These products are cheap cause many people in this periphery are cheap, not being paid anything. These people have been enslaved by imperial powers . These products brought to the core, and they turn it into value added goods. Periphery into core is cheap , core into periphery is pricy because of the value added good. African phase of this, and a chinese phase of this.
