Global capitalism = to ensure powerful/wealthy stay that way

Marxism takes a critical view. It states that the effects of global capitalism are to ensure that the powerful and wealthy stay that way at the expense of the powerless and poor. In fact, the two are dependent: the prosperity of the few is dependent upon the immiseration of the many.

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
5. Capitalism. energy, exploitation
A. Marx and Lenin
C. Class and emancipation
Global capitalism = to ensure powerful/wealthy stay that way
Conflict = competition between capitalist classes of states
Emancipate masses from exploitation by privileged few
Establish Communist society: common ownership of means of production
Marxism is a structural & positivist but also normative
Means-relations of production = proletariat-bourgeoisie clash
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