RES: John Saul on Colin Leys

["Renato Pompeu" <renatopompeu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:owner-marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Em nome de Louis Proyect
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 4 de junho de 2003 23:24
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Assunto: John Saul on Colin Leys


I just received a copy of the 'festschrift' paper, which is too long to
send to the list but can be read at: http://www.marxmail.org/saul_leys.htm

Basically it recounts Leys start as a dependency theorist, his migration
into an anti-dependency theorist influenced by Robert Brenner and Bill
Warren and where he is today, which is neither optimistic about
socialism nor local capitalist growth.


May I remember you that dependency theorists took at least two opposing
directions in Brazil: those who proposed, like Ruy Mauro Marini and
Theotonio dos Santos Jr., that the only alternative was a socialist
revolution, and those who proposed, like former president Fernando Henrique
Cardoso and his Health minister, José Serra, that "dependent and associated"
development was the only form of development possible in Brazil, since
socialism was out of question. Cardoso said more: that "dependent and
associated" development is the only way to maintain democracy in Brazil; all
statism, rightist or leftist, including socialism, would be undemocratic.
The result is a development that excludes great part of the population, but
in which the rich and the upper middle classes, including a part of the
workers, prosper. Marini and Santos Jr. have only some echo among the
landless peasants - they are not known on a national scale.

Renato Pompeu