From Modernization to Modes of Production: A Critique of the Sociologies of Development and Underdevelopment

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Sociology of Development: Theoretical Inadequacies....Pages 3-41
The Sociology of Development — Unfounded Axioms: The Restricted and Uneven Development of Third World Economies....Pages 42-70
The Sociology of Underdevelopment: the Theories of Baran and Frank....Pages 71-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Theoretical Prerequisites for an Analysis of Third World Formations: Theses....Pages 101-104
Social Formation and Mode of Production....Pages 105-138
Transitional Social Formations Structured by an Articulation of Modes of Production....Pages 139-142
The Genealogy of the Elements of the Capitalist Mode of Production Within Non-Capitalist Social Formations....Pages 143-149
Theorising the Non-Capitalist Mode of Production: Problems and Perspectives....Pages 150-171
Conceptualising Non-Capitalist Modes of Production: the Asiatic Mode....Pages 172-186
The Effects of Capitalist Penetration of Non-Capitalist Modes of Production: Penetration Under the Dominance of Merchants’ Capital....Pages 187-198
The Effects of Penetration Under the Dominance of Commodity Export....Pages 199-205
Imperialism and the Separation of Direct Producers from their Means of Production....Pages 206-214
The Emergence of an Articulation of Modes of Production and its Effects on the Structure of the Third World Formation....Pages 215-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-335