Week 3: Theories of Political Development (Continued)

Marx presents the human individual as a cooperative self-actualizer whose development is frustrated by the socioeconomic system. This view is compared to that of Maslow and Davies and is related to and tested by neo-Darwinian theory and recent studies in social psychology. It is proposed that the Maslowian and other Western models of the individual do reflect the present frustrated human reality, but that the more integrated, holistic, and dynamic Marxian hypothesis may more accurately reflect the natural human condition and thereby explain political upheaval, East and West, as the drive to overcome that frustration.

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