Capitalism against the Welfare State: Classical Political Economy
Some thought the welfare state is incompatible with capitalism. This conviction can be retraced to Adam Smith. He understood welfare as being secured primarily through the market. More clear reason for incompatibility is that without the compulsion to work an efficient market could no longer function because there would remain no
powerful did not design a global system for equals; the great powers followed the prescription of realist thought to always seek self-advantage.
Almost all of the independent sovereign states in the southern hemisphere
were at one time colonies. Today's inequalities are a product of this past colonization.
Global north countries are wealthy and democratic.
In contrast, according to the
power
Their economic power allowed them to exercise political power as well
They were able to shape and control the agencies of state. This control enabled them to have monopoly on the use of force
Another aspect
The bourgeoisie had cultural control therefore spreading beliefs and values that would sustain unequal system
By legitimizing it through reference to non-economic domains of socia
power and recovery with their capacity.
In this subparagraph the author offers us to think about US military activities abroad and its futility. He states that military aid is on the top of the list of things to abandon. One of the reasons is that military aid has never worked. The things happening nowadays with the USA remind us a historical event that once
1. unitary state, federal state, confederation - 차이점
1) unitary state
통치권이 중앙의 단일국가에 집중한 국가로서, 연방국가는 연방을 구성하는 지방이 국가구성의 단위체를 이루어 자주적인 조직과 권한을 가지지만 단일국가는 그러한 성격은 없고, 국가의 기본법에 의해 지위와 권한만을 가진다.
2) federal st