Reply #4: You are a Latin American and a leftist. You should know about dependency theory

[ChangoLoa]

which is the basis for almost every single leftist movement conceptualization in our region. From Allende to Chavez.

And BTW a marxist theory too, based on historical/ dialectic materialism. A direct inheritance from Marx and Engels.


It is certainly not this:
"his own version of the dependency theory, in which he defends the idea that the best way for economic and social development of Latin America is becoming used to the idea of being dependent of the developed world and vehemently cooperating with their agenda in order to get more generous alms"

Did you write this???


I don't have a lot of time right know, so I'll take from your own link (try to see which authors contributed to its formulation, many of them were major marxist theorists of their time):

"Two other early writers relevant to dependency theory were François Perroux and Kurt Rothschild. Other leading dependency theorists include Herb Addo, Walden Bello, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Enzo Faletto, Armando Cordova, Ernest Feder, Andre Gunder Frank, Walter Rodney, Pablo González Casanova, Keith Griffin, Kunibert Raffer, Paul Israel Singer, and Osvaldo Sunkel. Many of these authors focused their attention on Latin America; the leading dependency theorist in the Islamic world is the Egyptian economist Samir Amin (Tausch 2003).

Later, world systems theory expanded on dependency arguments. It postulates a third category of countries, the semi-periphery, intermediate between the core and periphery. The semi-periphery is industrialised, but with less sophistication of technology than in the core; and it does not control finances. Capitalism in the periphery, like in the center, is characterized by strong cyclical fluctuations.
The rise of one group of semi-peripheries tends to be at the cost of another group, but the unequal structure of the world economy based on unequal exchange tends to remain stable (Tausch 2003).
Tausch (2003) traces the beginnings of World systems theory to the writings of the Austro-Hungarian socialist Karl Polanyi after the First World War. In its present form it is usually associated with the work of Immanuel Wallerstein.

Ever since the capitalist world system evolved, there is a stark distinction between the nations of the center and the nations of the periphery.

Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, when he was still a social scientist, summarized his version of dependency theory as follows:

1)there is a financial and technological penetration by the developed capitalist centers of the countries of the periphery and semi-periphery;

2)this produces an unbalanced economic structure both within the peripheral societies and between them and the centers;

3)this leads to limitations on self-sustained growth in the periphery;

4)this favors the appearance of specific patterns of class relations;

5) these require modifications in the role of the state to guarantee both the functioning of the economy and the political articulation of a society, which contains, within itself, foci of inarticulateness and structural imbalance.<14>"

Do you understand what inward development and import substitution mean? Breaking the cycle of financial and technological dependence, maybe?