Análise e memória (recordações de Enzo Faletto)

Abstract

Returning to the thesis defended in Dependency and Development in Latin America, written in collaboration with Enzo Faletto, the author shows how the economic reasoning of Cepal (Economic Commission for Latin America) had nothing of the simplifying nature of the vulgar version of the theory of imperialism, and that Latin American structuralism, by combining economic analysis with political analysis, revealed that no country in the region was inevitably condemned to a specific form of dependency. Instead, there was considerable variability in the forms of integration to the world market and, therefore, in the alternatives for their economic growth, apart from Cuba, isolated in its link to the Soviet block. In today's world, transformed by globalization, this new form of capitalist relationship, we cannot understand either the political setting or the intellectual positions and analyses of the earlier period without recalling that the Soviet Union, Cuba and China formed a counterpoint to western capitalism's style of development.