2191 Lesson 1.4 Theoretical Isms and Marxism, Capitalism, Feminism, Post-modernism

Welcome to our class on theoretical isms Marxism capitalism feminism and post-modernism what we're trying to do is learn some Concepts here that will help us to understand International politics diplomacy and peace so we'll start off with class system Theory which is often called neo-marxism in the world today neo-marxism is based on Karl Marx and of

course call Karl Marx's famous ideas about classes and divisions so conflict according to marxists arises from class Warfare you have to remember the concept of class and I'll talk to you about what the classes were according to Marx in a moment dialectical materialism the conflict between classes dictates historical outcomes so according to

neo-marxist Marxism is not dead at all in fact it's on the rise and it explains a lot however just to give you a note for example in my department we have no marxists anymore at all so in other departments for example you might be going to York University in the future you'll see that Marxism is quite

well taught there's also some very famous Canadian authors who have talked about neo-marxism and have Concepts like consumerism like Naomi Klein I want to draw your attention to York University at the end of today's lecture and that's because they will be holding a huge conference which I want to draw your attention to not because it will be

Marxist I'll talk to you about that at the end but how many professors have you met that use Marxism still moving on the neo-marxist literature often mentions the rise of the proletariat and the capital class so let's talk about the classes the proletariat versus the capital classes the classes can be those that own