Rivas Castro, G., & Casique Herrera, M. C. (2021). Marini y la economía política marxista de la dependencia. Una aproximación crítica a partir de su análisis del proceso chileno [Marini and the Marxist political economy of dependency. A critical approach from his analysis of the Chilean process]. Revista Izquierdas, 50, 1-26.

ABSTRACT:

In lights of the resurgence in South America of the Marxist version of dependency theory, especially of the theoretical developments by Ruy Mauro Marini and considering the criticisms that followed its reappearance, this present paper hopes to make a contribution in this last sense, to emphasize the limitations of Marxist Dependency Theory when presenting the specific determination of the political consciousness of the working class. Starting from what Marini says about the political course that led to the 1973 coup d’Etat in Chile, we will show how his generic conception of the working class. An
ideological conception that emerges from the naturalization of the national character of the accumulation process, obliterates the place of ground rent as a fundamental determination of capital accumulation in South America, therefore limiting the potential of political action.

KEYWORDS; Dependency, Ground rent, Class struggle, Marxism

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