Does globalization uphold the Marxist approach to IPE? Karl Marx's theory of capitalism and Interdependence Often there is a misconception (such as propagated by his Indian followers) that Marx saw capitalism as an unmitigated evil, to be avoided at all costs. Marx was unalterably an Enlightenment proponent of progress (or today development), and this is what the development of capitalist economies and globalization represent for the world economy today. The Communist Manifesto itself reads almost …showed first 75 words of 675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 675 total…for the proletarian capture of power. Capitalism for Lenin also was not simply a demon to be resisted, but rather an aggregation of opportunities for human society to move ahead. What has been lost today in the political programme of the Left is precisely this vision of an opposition that is not simply negative but moves towards socialism, that can use and harness the immense development of human productive powers that capitalism, with globalisation, represents.