Capitalism and the Third World: development, dependence and the world system

1994 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-149
Author(s):  
Chris Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Third World Development ◽  
The Third World ◽  
World Development

World System, Class, and State in Third World Development

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen Koo
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
World State ◽  
The World ◽  
Third World Development ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The Third World ◽  
World Development

The currently popular political economy approach to Third World development is divided in terms of three primary foci of analysis: (1) dependency or the world economic system; (2) the internal class structure and class struggles; and (3) the peripheral capitalist state. This article examines the basic ideas involved in these three approaches and seeks to integrate them into a single framework. The basic assumption of this framework is that the pattern of capital accumulation and socioeconomic change in Third World countries are shaped by world-system, class, and state factors jointly, rather than independently of one another. Only by looking at interactions among these structural factors can concrete ways in which each of them influences the pattern of accumulation be illuminated. Of the three sets of factors, this article highlights the role of the Third World state in linking the world system and class forces to the development process.

Reflections on Colonialism and Modernisation

Itinerario ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Zhilian ◽  
Luo Rongqu
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
The Third ◽  
World Today ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Overseas Expansion ◽  
The Third World

The Third World today is the historic product of the overseas expansion of European and North American capitalism. Prior to the rise of modern capitalism, the world had been pluralistic. Different centres of civilisation had developed independently. Between them there had been cultural and commercial intercourse. Two historic missions were completed by European capitalism: firstly, the conquest of the world, and in its wake, colonial plunderings; secondly, the integration of the isolated and the peripheric regions into a unified world system.

The Theory and Practice of Third World Solidarity. By Darryl C. Thomas. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001. 324p. $57.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-695
Author(s):  
Howard P. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developing World ◽  
World System ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

Since the end of the Cold War, development studies have fallen to the wayside as attention has shifted to the democratization process in Eastern Europe, the increased integration of the European Union, and the effects of economic globalization in the advanced industrialized countries. The developing world was seen as an afterthought or, in some cases, as arenas of misunderstandable ethnic or religious conflict, structural poverty, disease, and other hardships. However, in the context of September 11, more attention now is on the developing world, perhaps not so much on economic development, but more on containing various terrorist organizations. Yet development studies still exist, and this area of study maintains an historical connection to several decades worth of academic research. Scholars persistently ask such questions as why the South is poor and politically weak compared to countries in the North. Answers generally are located in the dependency literature of unequal economic relations leading to unequal power relations. Darryl C. Thomas, in The Theory and Practice of Third World Solidarity, asks this question but provides a somewhat different response. The economic and political inequality in the world is not necessarily due to economic ideology but to the color of skin (p. xi). The solidarity of the Third World that Thomas sees in the past is one based on race, and racial solidarity should be the means by which the poor and powerless of the Third World transform unequal power relations. Thomas refers to this relationship as global apartheid, defining it as a structure of the world system that combines political economy and racial antagonism (p. 26). He states that global apartheid refers to the continuation of white-minority dominance of political, social, legal, cultural, and economic decision-making apparatuses within the world system (p. 111) and that this form of racial capitalism has become a permanent feature in the world system.

Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of India's Intermediate Regime

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
Intermediate Regime ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Third World

A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other (peripheral) regions. This thesis, accepted in one form or another by scholars following a dependency, neo-Marxist, or unequal exchange conception of economic development (as, for example, Amin 1976 or Laclau 1971; see discussion in Foster-Carter 1973 and Kahn 1980: 203ff) provides the foundation for their avowal of the ‘development of underdevelopment.’ The development of the core industrial capitalist nations required, so they argue, the distorted and repressed economic development of the third world.

On Development Theory and the Warren Thesis: Arguments against the Predominance of Economism

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Slater
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Third World ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third World Development ◽  
The Third World ◽  
World Development

Six key weaknesses of the Warren thesis on capitalist development in the Third World are identified and examined. This critical evaluation is located in the context of the formation of development theory. In particular, the discussion of Warren's work provides a basis for marshalling arguments against the pervasiveness of economism. Arguments are presented not only against the rule of economism but also against the theoretical sovereignty of the economic (econocentrism). By way of conclusion, a few suggestions are offered for a possible reorientation of our theoretical approach to Third World development.

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