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<p> Robert Brenner&#039;s critique of the market-focused theories of development which overlook class structures and relations, opening the door for third-worldist ideology. </p>

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<p class="artbody">The appearance of systematic barriers to economic advance in the course of capitalist expansion—the ‘development of underdevelopment’—has posed difficult problems for Marxist theory.<a href="#_edn*" name="_ednref*" title="" onMouseOver="return overlib('I wish to thank Alice Amsden, Johanna Brenner, Temma Kaplan, Barbara Laslett, Richard Smith and Jon Wiener for reading this </p>
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The notion of the &#039;development of underdevelopment&#039; opens the way to third-worldist ideology. From the conclusion that development occurred only in the absence of links with accumulating capitalism in the metropolis, it is a short step to the strategy of semi-autarkic socialist development. </div>
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