![]() ![]() ![]() The following section on the External/Internal Dialectic explores the varying emphasis placed on internal and external causation by various dependency theorists, after an early almost total focus on the external element. We explore in this section the various Marxist and neo-Marxist attempts to create a new paradigm of dependent development and establish its own ‘laws of motion’ distinct from those of metropolitan or central capitalism. This chapter recounts how the activist intellectuals driving it saw themselves Completing Lenin by adding the view of how imperialism was perceived in the county being dominated, something hitherto missing in the Marxist classics, with the partial exception of Rosa Luxemburg. The so-called ‘dependency theory’ that emerged in Latin America during the 1960s and received worldwide attention as the main alternative to the dominant paradigm is undoubtedly the main Southern contribution to development theory. ![]()
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