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RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Eurocentrism once again



Louis Proyect wrote:

> "These thinkers [Baran, Sweezy et al] move too quickly from the
proposition
> that capitalism is bound up with, and supportive of, continuing
> underdevelopment in large parts of the world, to the conclusion not only
> that the rise of underdevelopment is inherent in the extension of the
world
> division of labour through capitalist expansion, but also that the
> 'development of underdevelopment' is an indispensable condition for
> capitalist development itself."
>
> 100 percent crapola. Pure, undiluted nonsense. Neo-Kautskyism. A rotten
bag
> of potatoes that has fallen between two stools and can not get up, as my
> old friend Adolfo Olaechea used to say.

Not too mention not very dialectical.

Andy




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