Studijní materiál: Linklater, Andrew: Marxism

Introduction:

- Marx and Engles 1840: capitalist globalization is seriously eroding the foundations of international system of states
- 2 principal social classes: the national bourgeoisie x an increasingly cosmopolitan proletariat
- -> revolution action: establishment of new world order without exploitation and domination
- Traditional theorists: international politics as a result of interaction between independent political communities, Marxism as a “second-image” account of IR (which underestimates importance of nationalism, state, war, balance of power, diplomacy,…)
- Evolution of Marxism: since 1980 new interpretations of Marxism -> weapon in critique of realism (-> critical theory)
- Collapse of USSR: death of Marxism as social theory and political practice x relevance of Marxism increased with the rapid emergence of a new phase of economic globalization