Claudio Katz

Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an assessment of Dependency Theory and discusses its relevance and renewal in light of the current political reality of Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9789004471733
• ISBN-10: 9004471731
• Artikelnr.: 62573926

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
part 1
Background
1 Marx and the Periphery
 1  Cosmopolitan Socialism
 2 Rebellions and Rethinking
 3 Slavery and Oppression
 4 Democracies and Communes
 5  A New Paradigm
 6 Convergence and Cleavages
 7  Exogenous and Endogenous Causes
 8 Liberal Interpretations
 9 Varieties of Eurocentrism
 10 People without History
 11 Nations and Nationalism
 12 State and Progress
 13 Legacies
2 Underdevelopment in the Classical Marxists
 1  Justifications for Colonialism
 2 The Revolutionary Position
 3 Rights to Self-Determination
 4 Pillars of Anti-Imperialism
 5  Uneven Development
 6 Stages and Imperialism
 7  The Function of the Periphery
 8 Accumulation by Dispossession
 9 Uneven and Combined Development
 10 Challenges and Extensions
 11 Enduring Concepts
3 Center and Periphery in Postwar Marxism
 1  Deindustrialization and Surplus
 2  Stagnation and Domination
 3  Polemics with Liberalism
 4 Amin's Five Theses
 5  World Value and Polarization
 6 Unequal Exchange
 7  Dependency and Socialism
 8 Collective Imperialism
 9 Mandel's Perspective
 10 Bifurcations and Neutralizations
 11 Imbalances and Fluctuations
 12 Socialist Convergences
part 2
Development
4 The Rise of Dependency Theories
 1  Socialism and Liberalism
 2  Developmentalism and Marxism
 3  The New Categories
 4 Subimperialism and the National Bourgeoisie
 5  Theories and Particularities
 6 The Metropolis-Satellite Perspective
 7  Two Different Approaches
 8 Development and Dependency
 9 Theoretical Confusion
 10 An Illuminating Debate
 11 Socio-liberal Regression
5 Critiques and Convergences
 1  Functionalism without Subjects
 2  Mechanical Exogenism
 3  Problems of Pan-Capitalism
 4 Methodological Singularity?
 5  Perspectives on 'Popular Unity' in Chile
 6 Endogenism: Traditional and Transformed
 7  Agreement against Post-Marxism
 8 Return to Dependency
 9 The Opposite Path
 10 Theoretical Synthesis
 11 Methodological Convergence
 12 Assessments and Declines
 
6 Dependency and World-System Theory
 1  Cycles and Hegemonies
 2 Orders and Hierarchies
 3 Relationship to Dependency Theory
 4 Convergences and Separations
 5  Convergent Concepts
 6 Systems or Modes of Production?
 7  Terminal Crises and Social Subjects
 8 Two Views on Long Cycles
 9 Discrepancies on Socialism
 10 Anti-imperialism and National Traditions
 11 Only Now Is It Possible?
 12 Political Strategies
7 Three Stages of the Metropolis-Satellite Perspective
 1  Variety of Approaches
 2 Controversies over Colonization
 3 More Elaborate Answers
 4 Commercial Capitalism
 5  Political Simplifications
 6 The Turn toward World-System Theory
 7  Debates over the Proletariat
 8 Long Transitions
 9 The Missing Subject
 10 Debates over the East
 11 Problems with 'Asia-Centrism'
 12 Misunderstanding Capitalism
 13 Contemporary Influences
 14 No Response to Dependency
8 Anti-dependency Arguments
 1  Reformulating the Same Approach
 2 Interdependence?
 3 Simplified Comparisons
 4 Stagnationism?
 5  Monopolies and the Law of Value
 6  Underdevelopment as a Simple Fact
 7  Classifications and Examples
 8  Argentina as a Developed Country?
 9  Political Challenges
 10 Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg
 11 Mythical Proletariat
 12 Globalist Socialism
part 3
Concepts
9 Subimperialism i Review of a Concept
 1  Foundations and Objections
 2 Evaluation of a Concept
 3 Another Context
 4 Economic Interpretations
 5  Reformulation of a Status
 6 Controversial Extensions
 7  Misunderstanding a Category
 8 Comparison with Semi-Colony
 9 Dogmatic Inconsistencies
10 Subimperialism ii Current Application
 1  The Main Prototype
 2 An Adventurous Experiment
 3 An Uncertain Reconstitution
 4 Co-imperial Appendages
 5  Contrasting Situations
 6 Peculiarities of Another Power
 7  Empire in Formation
 8 Another Variant in Formation
 9 Is Brazil Subimperial Today?
 10 Comparisons with Other Cases
 11 Controversies over Application
 12 Reconsideration and Usefulness
11 Insights and Problems of the Super-exploitation Concept
 1  Logic and Interpretation
 2 Compatible Objections
 3 Low Value of Labor Power
 4 Statistical Irresolution
 5 The Centrality of Transfers
 6 Dependency without Super-Exploitation
 7 Variety of Uses
 8 Super-exploitation with and without Marx
 9 Absence of Fordism
 10 Where Is Exploitation Greater?
 11 Current Applications
 12 A Tentative Model
 13 Controversies over the Extension of Super-Exploitation
12 Similarities and Differences with the Age of Marini
 1  Productive Globalization
 2 Exploitation and Industrial Remodeling
 3 The Crisis of Capitalism
 4 Imperial Reformulations
 5 The Collapse of the ussr and the Rise of China
 6 Polarities and Neutralizations
 7 Diverse Inequalities
 8 Internationalization without a Political Counterpart
 9 Problems of Transnationalism
 10 Semi-peripheral Reordering
 11 Extent of Subimperialism
 12 Global South?
 13 Renewing Dependency Theory
13 The Dependent Cycle Forty Years Later
 1  Tensions and Crises
 2 Industrial Regression, Obstruction to Consumption
 3 Effects of Extractivism
 4 Cycle and Crisis
 5 The Contrast with Korea
 6 Other Interpretations
 7 Other Comparisons
 8 Relation with China
 9 Geopolitics, Classes, Governments
 10 Determinants of Dependency
 11 Reasons for Reconsideration
14 Dependency and the Theory of Value
 1  Causes of Unequal Exchange
 2 The Extent of Globalization
 3 Productive Globalization
 4 The Meaning of Intensified Labor
 5 Monopoly and the Duality of Value
 6 Misunderstanding Underdevelopment
 7  Raw Material Cycles
 8 The Reintroduction of Rent
 9 Imperialist Rents
 10 International Rent
 11 Forced Incompatibilities
 12 The Contrast with Venezuela
 13 Totalizing Visions
  Epilogue
References
Index