POLS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unequal Exchange, Rational Agent, Postcolonialism
2 Apr 2018
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These states developed economic independence but not independence in other areas: formed the group of 77 (1970s) who wanted to push the agendas of economic development in the international form much more aggressively. Called on the u. s and soviet union o focus more on military spending than on economic development. In 1965, a scholar from latin america named andre gundefrank wrote a development of underdevelopment in latin america. He was trained in traditional western marxism (class system, class relations, relationship between working people and capital) He was dissatisfied with the traditional orthodox marxist approach: marx"s view saw capitalism in a negative light and he believed that if capitalism continued to exploit unchecked, eventually the working class would rise up and. Andre believed marx"s views only related to the western experience and in fact, wasn"t international at all. He questioned wither capitalism had actually successfully integrated into these areas such as latin america.
