PYQ Vault · Paper 2 · Globalisation
Explain the relevance of the Marxist approach in the context of globalization.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Flow snapshot — how the answer moves
Intro routes
R1 liberal framing (prosperity / integration) → Marxism reframes as extension of capitalist exploitation → relevance follows from the reframing economic structures / class relations / historical materialism → classes, not states, as primary actors → exposes hidden inequality and dependency
Body flow
Rosenberg: globalisation not new, built into the capitalist world-system / uneven and combined development → Amin + Wallerstein: neo- imperialism, Global South, unequal trade-debt-extraction → Lenin lineage: WB / IMF / WTO widen the rich-poor gap → Harvey: "race to the bottom" + "accumulation by dispossession;’ precarious labour → Piketty: haves / have-nots, critique alive post-2008 → explains resistance: Battle of Seattle, World Social Forum, wealth in a global elite
Counter-view
reductionist → oversimplifies globalisation, understates state and non- state agency → charged with Eurocentrism
Conclusion routes
R1 inequality / dependency / exploitation persist → indispensable asa critique emancipatory theory → not merely to interpret globalisation but to change it
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
