Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America
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The Latin American dependentistas produced a knowledge that criticized the Eurocentric assumptions of the cepalistas, including theorthodoxMarxist and theNorthAmericanmodernization theories. The dependentista school critique of stagism and developmentalism was an important intervention that transformed the imaginary of intellectual debates in many parts of the world. However, I will argue that many dependentistaswere still caught in the developmentalism, and in some cases even the stagism, that they were trying to overcome. Moreover, although the dependentistas’ critique of stagism was important in denying the “denial of coevalness” that Johannes Fabian (1983) describes as central to Eurocentric constructions of “otherness,” some dependentistas replaced it with new forms of denial of coevalness. The first part of this article discusses developmentalist ideology and what I call “feudalmania” as part of the longue durée of modernity in Latin America. The second part discusses the dependentistas’ developmentalism. The third part is a critical discussion of FernandoHenriqueCardoso’s version of dependency theory. Finally, the fourth part discusses the dependentistas’ concept of culture.
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