Re: [Marxism] The "turn to industry" of the 70s and 80s

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> That's kind of ridiculous.  We are seeing countries in the midst a bourgeois
> development.  India, Brazil, China.  Within our lifetimes
> we will see more and more of the world join the ranks of "advanced"
> capitalist countries.  The development of these countries, should
> hopefully shatter the "dependency" theory that some of the left still clings
> to, we'll also be at a point where the working-class of the world
> will be at its largest number in history, who knows what the future has in
> store for humanity.

Actually, Brazil was considered a counter-factual to dependency theory 
in the early 1970s. It was always considered ready to "take off". The 
real question, however, is not how much GDP is generated in a country 
like Brazil but whether or not it can ever become socially and 
economically like Sweden, Canada, Australia et al. From that standpoint, 
A.G. Frank has stood the test of time.


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