More industrially developed countries display the future of less developed ones

Evidence

It is a question of these laws themselves, of these tendencies working with iron necessity towards inevitable results. The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2248

Categorization

• XREF: Quoted from Marx’s Capital; connects to the reader’s knowledge of Marxist critiques and the book’s positioning of surveillance capitalism against classical capitalism. — connects to: Modernisation theory sees development as linear industrial progression from primitive to developed — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 11; Present cultural forms carry disengageable seeds of the future — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 190; Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernisation theory sees development as linear industrial progression from primitive to developed #corroborates (0.85) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 11
• Present cultural forms carry disengageable seeds of the future #responds-to (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 190
• Development and underdevelopment must be analyzed within a single world economic system #contradicts (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 605
• Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment #contradicts (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• Modernization theory blamed underdevelopment on internal cultural flaws within societies #corroborates (0.78)
• Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world #contradicts (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234
• Transplanted philosophies operate differently depending on a countrys economic development stage #expands (0.75) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2180
• Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151