Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Tables xi
Prologue R.A. Dello Buono xiii
Introduction 1
1 Imperialism and Industrial Colonialism 7
Monopoly, the Role of Science and the Function of the State 7
Social Relations of Production and Foreign Trade 16
The Workings of Industrial Colonialism 22
Imperialism and Nature 27
Conclusion 31
2 Imperialism at the Third Stage 35
Key Aspects of Crisis 35
The "Globalization" Strategy 37
From 1995 Forward 49
Capital and Nature 53
Conclusion 55
3 The Pattern of Industrial Colonialism 57
Barriers to Regional Appropriation of Scientific Knowledge for Production 58
National Innovation Systems in Latin America 62
The Universities in the Region 70
External Limits to Export-led Economic Growth 79
The Different Functional Roles Within the Region 86
Internal Contradictions 89
Political Regimes at the Third Stage 92
Climate Change in Latin America 99
Conclusion 100
4 Industrial Colonialism and Surpluses of Population 103
The Over-Supply of Labor-Power and Surplus-Population Theory 103
Deficits and Surpluses of Population 112
The Surpluses of Population and Their Activities 114
Relative Surpluses of Population at the Level of Goods Production and Repairs 115
Relative Surpluses in the Sphere of Commodity Circulation 119
Surpluses of Population Beyond Capital Valorization 122
What About Home Labor? 125
The Nature of the Latin American Migrant Worker and the Historical Record 127
Remittances and Wage Differentials 130
The Indigenous Population 133
Conclusion 135
5 Industrial Colonialism and Peasant Production 139
The Social Character of Peasant Production 140
From Peasant Production to Infra-Subsistence Production 144
Social Impacts of Neoliberalism on the Countryside 151
Conclusion 158
Appendix: The Underlying Causes of Underdevelopment in Latin America 161
Bibliography 179
Name Index 187
Subject Index 189
