MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mughal Empire, Proletariat, Frantz Fanon
Document Summary
Task 3 state attributes: imperialism and economic rivalry. Levy and thompson causes of war chapter 4: the state and societal level. The need for the analysis of the state level, not just international. Combination of the societal-level variables and state-level variables into one single category. Karl marx: the struggle between the capitalist and the proletariat was the driving force of history, all social and political relationship were determined by the underlying economic structure. The theory also emphasises the structure of the world economy the relationship between the wealthy core and: example of how societal-level independent variable explain the foreign policy of a state poorer periphery . The best example of marxist-leninist theories is first world war imperialist interests cased the war. Lenin defines imperialism as the monopoly state of capitalism , hence his theory cannot explain imperialism that occurs before capitalism has reached the state of monopoly: e. g. cannot explain the ancient greeks, the persians.
