Description
Book SynopsisThe Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) managed to explain both the insertion of peripheral societies into the international market and the capital accumulation processes of each country. This theory has become an essential tool for those endeavoring to understand our world. Since Ruy Mauro Marini laid out its foundations, however, many transformations have occurred in global capitalism and in our societies. It has become necessary to update this important theory in the face of a more complex context.
The real test of theory is its adequacy as an instrument of understanding contemporary reality. The TMD has been enriched and renewed, in this regard, by the work of Carlos Eduardo Martins. He persuasively considers capitalism from the perspective of anti-capitalism, dependence from the standpoint of emancipation, and our present reality through a vision for its revolutionary transformation.
This book is a revised edition of a work first published in 2011 as Globalização, dependência e neoliberalismo na América Latina by Boitempo Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil.
Table of ContentsForeword Theotonio Dos Santos
Preface to the English Edition
Translator 's Acknowledgement
List of Figures
Prologue Adrián Sotelo Valencia
Introduction
1 Social Sciences and the Challenge of Globalization
2 The Modern World System and Capitalism: Origins, Cycles and Secularity
3 Globalization and the Crisis of the Modern World System
4 Impasses of US Hegemony: 21st Century Perspectives
5 Dependency and Development in the Modern World System
6 Revisiting the Political Economy of Dependency in the Light of Marx and Contemporary Capitalism
7 Latin America: Dependency, Neoliberalism and New Models of Development
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
