Center for Global Studies CGS 1023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Productive Forces, Child Poverty, Class Conflict
31 Mar 2019
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Ideology of development: human progress, efficiency, growth, industry, bridging the gap, technology, infrastructure. Reality of lack of development: poverty, inequality, child poverty, ghettos, slums, sick kids. Reality and its representation: ideology refers to the influence of these ideas on peoples beliefs and actions. Economic structure of capitalist society: productive forces, relations to production, class struggle, civil society, ngos, state, ideology critique and culture, beliefs, representation. State and politics: development state, neoliberal state, imperial state. Relations of production: class relations, kin, gender, relation between classes, all theories- profit decline. Capitalism was emerging in great britain and looking for expansion. Exports: industrial capital seeks to secure a market by force, buy the colonial system. Construction of railways: opening of world to trade. Peripheral countries still maintained local control of raw material production and capital accumulation. Phase of rapid economic development and technological progress. Capitalism is seen has inherently dynamic, development is taken for granted.
