According to the critical theory perspective, what types of relationships between the West and societies in the rest of the world have allowed the West to develop?
What will be an ideal response?
The critical theory perspective argues that the West’s development is a result of the systematic exploitation of other societies. This involves all aspects of relations between the West and other societies. In military affairs, the West subjugates and colonizes other societies. In terms of culture, the West marginalizes other societies’ cultures by dividing states between those that are advanced and “civilized” and those that are undeveloped, primitive, savage, and “uncivilized.” In economics, the West imposes a system of capitalism that extracts profit from local labor in order to finance the cosmopolitan consumerism of elite classes. Finally, the critical theory perspective argues that, in all of these relationships, the West systematically oppresses and disenfranchises women and minorities, literally enslaving them to push forward the West’s development.
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What will be an ideal response?