Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere

Evidence

As critical scholars Andre Gunder Frank and Samir Amin argue, Western development does not emerge independently from the rest of the world. On the contrary, development results from the active creation of underdevelopment. Simply, there would be no wealth in the US and Europe without the construction of poverty in the rest of the world. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to dependency theory literature by Frank and Amin; also resonates with the reader’s broader austerity/neoliberalism foundational reading. — connects to: Third World countries depend on East or West for primitive capital accumulation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2602; Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 293; Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234 (+10 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A core paradigm-shifting claim: development and underdevelopment are co-produced, not stages of one path. Central to the polemical intervention.

Broader Connections

• Western wealth depends on the active construction of global underdevelopment #corroborates (0.98) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293
• Capitalist wealth is built on the subjugation of weaker economies #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 337
• Underdeveloped nations exist to channel surplus toward wealthy metropolises. #expands (0.85)
• Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world #expands (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234
• Underdeveloped nations uniquely channel surplus to the world metropolis #corroborates (0.80) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 14
• Western development has not deviated from common civilizational patterns #contradicts (0.78)
• Latin American underdevelopment results from capitalist incorporation dating to the sixteenth century #exemplifies (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 606
• Latin America’s underdevelopment stems from its early insertion into world capitalism. #exemplifies (0.75)