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Explain the relevance of the Marxist approach in the context of globalization.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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For mainstream theory, globalisation is a story of growing interdependence; for the Marxist approach it is the worldwide consolidation of capitalism as a single, hierarchical order. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels anticipated it in 1848: capital's need for ever-wider markets drives the bourgeoisie across the planet, so that "it must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish…

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  • Globalisation as a capitalist project
  • What the evidence shows
  • Limits of the approach
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