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Self-Assessment Questions
1) Please explain the concept of Historic Materialism. How did the Marxist critique of Predatory Capitalism of the 19th century helped to eventually establish a system of social security that curbed the excesses of hypercapitalism?
2) Please analyze Lenin's theory of Imperialism. What is the "proletarian aristocracy" concept and what is the "revolutionary avant-gardre"?
3) Please explain the centrality of "autarky" for Marxist/Leninist economics. What was the process of collectivization and what was its societal impact?
4) What was Lenin's New Economic Policy?
5) Please explain the main differences between Marxism/Leninism and Structural Marxism
6) Please explain the concept of "anti-hegemony" and "historic block or historic camp". What are the major differences between Gramscian Marxism with Classical Marxism?
7) What was the COMECON and what conclusions can be drawn from its functioning for the validity of Marxist economics?
8) How does Wallerstein's Global Systems Theory divert from Marxism? How did it influence neomercantilist though? Please explain the concept of the Semi-Periphery.
9) In what ways does Prebisch theory of "import substitution industrialization" is similar with Economic Nationalism? Which Newly Industrialized Countries best represent Prebisch theorem?
10) What the major differences and similarities between the two principal strains of the Dependency Theories and what are their major weaknesses?