Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

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).

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