The Development of Underdevelopment

Publisher:  New England Free Press
Year Published:  1966
Pages:  14pp   Price:  $0.15   Resource Type:  Pamphlet

Frank critiques the accepted notion that economic development occurs in a succession of capitalist stages. Instead, so-called underdeveloped countries may be understood by looking at the economic relationship with now developed metropolitan countries. The expansion of capitalism has penetrated even the most isolated sectors of the underdeveloped world. Uneven global development and the persistence of commerical capitalism in the underdeveloped world are, in fact, characteristic of the global extension and unity of the capitalist system.

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This article appeared in the September 1966 edition of Monthly Review and was republished as a pamphlet by New England Free Press.