POL 2103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 33: Sakoku, Overproduction

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2103
• Professor: Kevin Mc Millan

Document Summary

Marx: 1st theorist of globalization: the bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world-market given a (cid:272)os(cid:373)opolita(cid:374) (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter to produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) i(cid:374) e(cid:448)ery (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try . All old-fashioned national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed . I(cid:374) pla(cid:272)e of old (cid:449)a(cid:374)ts, satisfied (cid:271)y the produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of different lands and climes. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all chinese (cid:449)alls, (cid:449)ith (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h it for(cid:272)es the (cid:271)ar(cid:271)aria(cid:374)s" i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sely o(cid:271)sti(cid:374)ate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i. e. , to become bourgeois the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es. I(cid:374) o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ord, it (cid:272)reates a (cid:449)orld after its o(cid:449)(cid:374) i(cid:373)age.