The Longue Duree of the Marxist Theory of Dependency and the Twenty-First Century

A critical review of the 50-year-old Marxist theory of dependency and its current situation includes discussion of its analyses of the world-system, the concepts of superexploitation and subimperialism, its reflections on development, democracy, and proposals for emancipation, and its perspectives on the rise of the Latin American left in the twenty-first century and the prospects of neoconservatism. It concludes that with the globalization of capital, Marxist dependency theory must oppose not only internal structures of dependency but the imperialist world order, and this will call for the socialization of the forces of production and the development of national, continental and global strategies. Uma revisao critica dos 50 anos de debates sobre a teoria marxista da dependencia e seu estado da arte, que inclui a discussao de suas analises do sistema-mundo, os conceitos de superexploracao e subimperialismo, suas reflexoes sobre desenvolvimento, democracia e propostas de emancipacao, e suas perspectivas sobre a ascensao da esquerda latino-americana no seculo XXI e as perspectivas do neoconservadorismo. Conclui que, com a globalizacao do capital, a teoria marxista da dependencia deve assumir sua vocacao de luta nao apenas contra as estruturas internas da dependencia mas tambem contra a ordem mundial imperialista, e isso exigira o desenvolvimento de estrategias nacionais, continentais e mundiais.