Critical Studies on Latin America. Debates and Alternatives for Social Change
Writings on Marxist Dependency Theory. With a foreword by Andy Higginbottom
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Critical Studies on Latin America. Debates and Alternatives for Social Change
Writings on Marxist Dependency Theory. With a foreword by Andy Higginbottom
About this book
Why is it that even after two centuries of formal political independence and after the implementation of policies that were supposed to lead them to development, Latin American countries have not managed to overcome underdevelopment, poverty, and dependency? Why are the contradictions inherent to capitalism exacerbated in Latin America, in such a way that this region appears as the denial of the civilising promises inaugurated by capitalist modernity? Why do the asymmetrical relations in the world system and labour super-exploitation tend to deepen in the region, instead of being reduced? Why do the main social processes that challenge the capitalist relations of exploitation and domination take place in the 'periphery' of the system, not in its imperialist core?The essays collected in this book present the answers that Marxist dependency theory has formulated to these and other questions, by highlighting the processes and relations that characterise the heterogeneous deployment of capitalism as a world system and that define the particularities of Latin American dependent capitalism: the super-exploitation of labour-power, unequal exchange, the rupture in the cycle of capital, among others. It also highlights the relevance of the perspective inaugurated by Marxist dependency theory to explain the current problems of Latin America.
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Table of contents
- Note on translations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Latin American Question
- Fundamentals of Labour Super-exploitation
- A review of the Marxist debate on unequal exchange and its relevance as a determination of uneven development in the capitalist world system
- Latin America as a Weak Link in the Imperialist Chain
- Introduction
- The actuality of the revolution
- Lenin in Latin America
- Redoubled exploitation
- State of exception and constituent power
- References