The Dialectics of Dependency

A foundational essay of class struggle published in English for the first time Considered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought, Ruy Mauro Marini demonstrated that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market, and the class relations they engender. In The Dialectics of Dependency , the Brazilian sociologist and revolutionary showed that, as Latin America came to specialize in the production of raw materials