On Wed, 23 May 2001, Louis Proyect wrote:
> Ricardo:
> >I wonder as well whether Brenner proposed an alternative research
> >program to the study of third world development. Not really. Is there
> >any Brennerian case study of development out there?
Although he is not strictly using a Brennerian analysis, probably Maurice
Zeitlin's work on Chile is close to that, and if I'm not mistaken is a
book written in response to Andre Gunder Frank's work on Chile.
For all the hyperventillated criticism of Brenner for being 'eurocentric',
it's interesting to note that his recent work on global turbulence points
the finger at capitalists in advanced capitalist countries, especially
American ones, for creating the conditions that underly uneven development
globally.
His critique of world systems theory, Frank, etc. was aimed at the
tendency in the dependency school to theorise imperialism as a
nation-nation problem as opposed to a collaborator-imperialism problem.
The latter requires tools of class analysis that the former doesn't
necessitate. That was very much related to the earlier Dobb-Sweezy debate,
of course.
Steve
