II Imperialism and Dependency

Abstract

The on-going discussion over the nature of Latin American relationship to imperial ism finds expression in this section in a number of critical essays. David Romagnolo ana lyzes the theory of Permanent Revolution and argues that it has negative implications if employed as a strategy for Latin American revolution. Romagnolo is a graduate student in history at the University of California, Irvine. John Myer assesses the Cardoso variant of dependency theory, arguing that it is not based upon the Marxist class struggle and leads to political inaction. Myer is a graduate student in history at the University of Cali fornia, Irvine. Kyle Steenland, who teaches American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, while disagreeing with Gunder Frank that Chilean agriculture had been capitalist since the conquest, argues that capitalism has characterized the mode of production in Chilean agriculture since 1930. Finally Josd Ocampo responds to the criti cisms of his article (co-authored with Raúl Ferndndez) which appeared in the Spring 1974 issue of Latin American Perspectives. Ocampo is a political scientist at the Universidad Distrital, Bogotá, Columbia.