In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in his view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World. This colonial structure penetrates everywhere in Latin America, forming and transforming all its features in obedience to its own imperatives and thereby imposing upon the region those characteristic features of poverty and backwardness which are not primarily the remnants of an ancient "feudal" past but the direct products of capitalism. This development of underdevelopment will persist, Frank argues, until the people of Latin America free themselves from world capitalism by means of revolution.
- ISBN10 0853451125
- ISBN13 9780853451129
- Publish Date 1 January 1970 (first published 1 January 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English