Claudio Katz

Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought
Übersetzer: Malinowitz, Stanley

• 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: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9789004471733
• ISBN-10: 9004471731
• Artikelnr.: 62573926

Autorenporträt

Claudio Katz is a research professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He is the author of numerous books and articles on economics, politics, and Latin American society. His views are synthesized in Neoliberalismo, neo-desarrollismo, socialismo (2015, Batalla de Ideas).

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