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A Question of Dependency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Ronald H. Chilcote
Ronald H. Chilcote*
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside
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The dependency perspective has become a major thrust, both in bourgeois and Marxist conceptions of development and underdevelopment in Latin America, but the distinctions between the two interpretations have been blurred. No unified theory of dependency yet exists, but a variety of theoretical tendencies tends to cluster in the literature on dependency. The discussion that follows differentiates between the bourgeois and Marxist interpretations by focusing on some fundamental weaknesses of dependency theory that emanate among those who utilize a Marxist analysis. In particular, there is concern that dependency theories ignore social classes and class conflict or that these theories tend to present mechanical schemes in which external rather than internal aspects are determinant. Further, it is argued that dependency theories are nationalist in ideology and advocate autonomous capitalist development rather than offering solutions or strategies for the transition from capitalism to socialism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1978 , pp. 55 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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I would like to thank Joel Edelstein, Timothy Harding, and Jaime Regalado for their comments and criticisms of an early draft of this paper.

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