Latin American underdevelopment results from articulation of modes, not inevitable capitalist transformation

Evidence

Wolpe suggests, for example, that the reliance of the capitalist sector in South Africa on the non-capitalist sectors in the African areas for both cheap labor supply and subsistence reproduction enables capital to pay for labor-power below the cost of its reproduction, while having always available a plentiful labor supply whose costs of subsistence it does not fully bear (Wolpe 1972). … Where capitalism develops by means, in part, of its articulation with non-capitalist modes, “the mode of political domination and the content of legitimating ideologies assume racial, ethnic and cultural forms and for the same reasons as in the case of imperialism … political domination takes on a colonial form” (Wolpe 1975). He adds: “The conservation of non-capitalist modes of production necessarily requires the development of ideologies and political policies which revolve around the segregation and preservation and control of African ‘tribal’ societies” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 611 (#expands, via linked claim)

Mode of production is already conceptualized as consisting, neither of economic relations per se , nor of anything so vulgarly material as “level of technology”: but as a combination of relations—of productive forces and the social relations of production. These, in each epoch, form the determining matrix, in which social life and material existence are produced and reproduced. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 496 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Latin America’s underdevelopment stems from its early insertion into world capitalism. (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.81)
• Gunder Frank held that Latin America was capitalist since the sixteenth-century conquest (similarity 0.80)
• Marx held that capitalism both preserves and absorbs pre-capitalist modes of production. (similarity 0.80)
• Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes. (similarity 0.79)
• Latin American underdevelopment results from capitalist incorporation dating to the sixteenth century (similarity 0.79)
• Racial segmentation is economically reproduced through unfree labor institutions like reserves and compounds (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance #exemplifies (0.80)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 611
• Mode of production means combined relations, not technology or economy alone #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 496
• Multiple internal and external factors blocked capitalist transformation of Haiti #exemplifies (0.55)
• Latin America’s underdevelopment stems from its early insertion into world capitalism. #qualifies (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 606