Third World countries depend on East or West for primitive capital accumulation

Evidence

What stands in the way of this great chance for a non-capitalist form of industrialization is, unfortunately, the fact that most of these developing countries depend, for better or worse, on the developed industrial countrieseither of the West or of the Eastfor their original accumulation of capital. At any rate, I believe that, objectively, the militant liberation movements in the developing countries today represent the strongest potential force for radical transformation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2602

Categorization

• XREF: A classic dependency-theory claim — anticipates Andre Gunder Frank’s and Samir Amin’s later formulations of structural dependence. — connects to: Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 293; First-world wealth does not causally depend on third-world poverty — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 405; Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293 (+7 more)
• SEED: An essay contrasting Marcuse’s Third World hope (liberation movements as the strongest transformative force) with the actual postcolonial record of dependent industrialization.

Broader Connections

• Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• First-world wealth does not causally depend on third-world poverty #contradicts (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 405
• Underdeveloped nations uniquely channel surplus to the world metropolis #expands (0.80) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 14
• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292
• Capital accumulation inherently requires the subjugation of weaker economies #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 337
• Third World industrialization and capital flows barely grew despite globalization rhetoric #complicates (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 511
• Western development has not deviated from common civilizational patterns #contradicts (0.70)
• Neocolonialism keeps formally independent states economically and politically directed from outside #expands (0.70) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 181