LABR 2P96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Affluent Society, Ecological Footprint, Environmental Degradation
26 Oct 2016
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The myth of catching-up development: overdevelopment of some is the underdevelopment of others. By taken the same path of industrialization, technological progress and capital accumulation done by the u. s, europe, and japan, other countries can reach the same goals. The relationship between the overdeveloped centers and the underdeveloped peripheries is a colonial one. The poverty of the unde(cid:396)de(cid:448)eloped (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s is (cid:374)ot a (cid:396)esult of (cid:858)(cid:374)atu(cid:396)al(cid:859) laggi(cid:374)g behind, but the direct consequence of the rich industrial countries who exploit the so-called periphery. Without this colony men cannot go out. Similar colonial relationships exist between man and nature, men and women, urban and rural. The price of development in the south: force and violence maintain colonial relationships. In the film what i have learned about u. s. foreign policy the war against the third world, we watched force and violence against several countries. War to extract oil in middle east. But the emotional and cognitive acceptance of the colonized is necessary.
