Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought
Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
ISBN: 978-90-04-47173-3
Verlag: Brill
This book received the Libertador Prize for Critical Thought (2018), demonstrating a renewal of interest in Dependency Theory. That conception initially included distinct forms of Marxism, liberalism, and developmentalism that should be differentiated, despite sharing the same name. The later retreat of that approach contrasts with the growing present-day relevance of its postulates; Latin America bears the effects of dependency even more acutely than in the past, making it imperative to understand the logic of its peripheral subordination. Dependency Theory in its original form is insufficient for explaining contemporary reality; it must be updated to interpret the current modalities of dependent capitalism. This book offers analytical clues to that reinvention.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
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PROLOGUE
PART 1: BACKGROUND
1. Marx and the Periphery
Cosmopolitan Socialism
Rebellions and Rethinking
Slavery and Oppression
Democracies and Communes
A New Paradigm
Convergence and Cleavages
Exogenous and Endogenous Causes
Liberal Interpretations
Varieties of Eurocentrism
People Without History
Nations and Nationalism
&emspState and Progress
Legacies
2. Underdevelopment in the Classical Marxists
Justifications for Colonialism
The Revolutionary Position
Rights to Self-Determination
Pillars of Anti-Imperialism
Uneven Development
Stages and Imperialism
The Function of The Periphery
Accumulation by Dispossession
Uneven and Combined Development
Challenges and Extensions
Enduring Concepts
3. Center and Periphery in Postwar Marxism
Deindustrialization and Surplus
Stagnation and Domination
Polemics with Liberalism
Amin’s Five Theses
World Value and Polarization
Unequal Exchange
Dependency and Socialism
Collective Imperialism
Mandel’s Perspective
Bifurcations and Neutralizations
Imbalances and Fluctuations
Socialist Convergences
PART 2: DEVELOPMENT
4. The Rise of Dependency Theories
Socialism and Liberalism
Developmentalism and Marxism
The New Categories
Subimperialism and the National Bourgeoisie
Theories and Particularities
The Metropolis-Satellite Perspective
Two Different Approaches
Development and Dependency
Theoretical Confusion
An Illuminating Debate
Socio-Liberal Regression
5. Critiques and Convergences
Functionalism Without Subjects
Mechanical Exogenism
Problems of Pan-Capitalism
Methodological Singularity?
Perspectives on ‘Popular Unity’ in Chile
Endogenism: Traditional and Transformed
Agreement Against Post-Marxism
Return to Dependency
The Opposite Path
Theoretical Synthesis
Methodological Convergence
Assessments and Declines
6. Dependency and World-System Theory
Cycles and Hegemonies
Orders and Hierarchies
Relationship to Dependency Theory
Convergences and Separations
Convergent Concepts
Systems or Modes of Production?
Terminal Crises and Social Subjects
Two Views on Long Cycles
Discrepancies on Socialism
Anti-Imperialism and National Traditions
Only Now Is It Possible?
Political Strategies
7. Three Stages of the Metropolis-Satellite Perspective
Variety of Approaches
Controversies Over Colonization
More Elaborate Answers
Commercial Capitalism
Political Simplifications
The Turn Toward World-System Theory
Debates Over the Proletariat
Long Transitions
The Missing Subject
Debates Over the East
Problems With ‘Asia-Centrism’
Misunderstanding Capitalism
Contemporary Influences
No Response to Dependency
8. Anti-Dependency Arguments
Reformulating the Same Approach
Interdependence?
Simplified Comparisons
Stagnationism?
Monopolies and The Law of Value
Underdevelopment as A Simple Fact
Classifications and Examples
Argentina as A Developed Country?
Political Challenges
Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg
Mythical Proletariat
Globalist Socialism
PART 3: CONCEPTS
9. Subimperialism I: Review of a Concept
Foundations and Objections
Evaluation of A Concept
Another Context
Economic Interpretations
Reformulation of A Status
Controversial Extensions
Misunderstanding A Category
Comparison with Semi-Colony
Dogmatic Inconsistencies
10. Subimperialism II: Current Application
The Main Prototype
An Adventurous Experiment
An Uncertain Reconstitution
Co-Imperial Appendages
Contrasting Situations
Peculiarities of Another Power
Empire in Formation
Another Variant in Formation
Is Brazil Subimperial Today?
Comparisons with Other Cases
Controversies Over Application
Reconsideration and Usefulness
11. Insights and Problems of the Super-Exploitation Concept
Logic and Interpretation
Compatible Objections
Low Value of Labor Power
Statistical Irresolution
The Centrality of Transfers
Dependency Without Super-Exploitation
Variety of Uses
Super-Exploitation with and Without Marx
Absence of Fordism
Where Is Exploitation Greater?
Current Applications
A Tentative Model
Controversies Over the Extension of Super-Exploitation
12. Similarities and Differences with the Age of Marini
Productive Globalization
Exploitation and Industrial Remodeling
The Crisis of Capitalism
Imperial Reformulations
The Collapse of The USSR and the Rise of China
Polarities and Neutralizations
Diverse Inequalities
Internationalization Without A Political Counterpart
Problems of Transnationalism
Semi-Peripheral Reordering
Extent of Subimperialism
Global South?
Renewing Dependency Theory
13. The Dependent Cycle Forty Years Later
Tensions and Crises
Industrial Regression, Obstruction to Consumption
Effects of Extractivism
Cycle and Crisis
The Contrast with Korea
Other Interpretations
Other Comparisons
Relation with China
Geopolitics, Classes, Governments
Determinants of Dependency
Reasons for Reconsideration
14. Dependency and the Theory of Value
Causes of Unequal Exchange
The Extent of Globalization
Productive Globalization
The Meaning of Intensified Labor
Monopoly and The Duality of Value
Misunderstanding Underdevelopment
Raw Material Cycles
The Reintroduction of Rent
Imperialist Rents
International Rent
Forced Incompatibilities
The Contrast with Venezuela
Totalizing Visions
EPILOGUE
REFERENCES
INDEX
