THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL STUDIES
The intellectual history of Politics is seemingly continuous, the west creates this supposition
by making the developments of Politics seem much bigger than they truly are. The west
engages with a retrospective telling of the narrative of modernity. They also do this several
decades later by piecing together they’re past as though they always knew they’d end up in
today’s modern soc.
Supposed Progression debunked, Development moved in a unilinear fashion. Nothing is
continuous, only appears so.
Ancient Medieval Modern
Greek Philosophy Judo Christian Back to ancient thought
All questions welcome Religious processes
Thought was secular Anti-Thought Secular thought
Modernity recreating itself
Politics helps you understand the modern ontology of the social, it leads to self-alienation as a
black person.
Political Sciences (Western) discipline:
Systematically organised bodies of knowledge with founding fathers.
Its own technical vocabulary.
Power, Authority, legitimacy.
Backed by power.
Exclusive subject matter- A domain of thought that is exclusive and typically defines
western thought.
All disciplines including Political sciences arose to answer questions brought about by the
industrial revolution and societies transition into the modern ontology of the social.
Harrod Laswell said, Political studies is a determination of who gets what when and where
and how and is an authoritative allocation of values. These values are Material values because
we are homo-economicus and symbolic, which is non-material.
Chinua Moa said Political studies is a continuation of war by other means (Clauswitz?)
War is Politics with violence and politics is war without violence (moa zedong?)
Note: In every discipline there were founding women who are not featured or acknowledged,
George Elliot, a female who had to change her name to be recognised because of patriarchy,
was victim to the erasure of women’s contributions in the study of politics.
Capitalism, which has been embedded in injustice, is said to be an equal exchange, you get
equally what you give, Note then, where does profit come from? Under Paying labour, Marx.
Factors of production
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