POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Eurocentrism, Tropical Africa, Arable Land
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Theory was first base don latin america and then generalized: fail to provide specific causes of underdevelopment beyond the fact that they originate in the west and the functioning of the capitalism system. Fail to look at internal issues (ex. Corruption: concepts such as core and periphery are little different from terms such as, no real policies were provided, no workable solution presented, just criticized traditional and modern modernization. No sophisticated solution to solve poverty: ignored internal conflicts, class, corruption within developing nations, book: false start - rene dumont, explaining the root causes of development crisis, mazrui"s explanation of the crisis. Failure of liberal institutions and organized political parties, efficient corporate power or efficient trade unions or coherent civil society or the insignificant number of the middle class. Education for liberation but not for production: philosophy but no education fro production.