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Critique and Anti-Critique Essays on Dependence and Reformism Andre Gunder Frank Since the late 1960s the world has wit¬ nessed the election of Chile’s first Marxist president, followed by the bloody defeat of AilenHe’s program for a peaceful tran¬ sition to socialism; the victory of the Vietnamese and Kampuchean revolu¬ tions, followed by war among these coun¬ tries and China; the intensification of the struggle against imperialism in Central America and elsewhere in the Third World; and, in the industrialized West, the rise of Reaganism and Thatcherism on the right and of Eurocommunism and Mitterand’s attempt to reintroduce Keynesianism against the stream from the left—all within the context of an ever more manifest global economic, social, political, and ideological crisis in the world as a whole and in the Third World in particular. As an originator and main spokesman of dependency theory, Andre Gunder Frank has participated in theoretical, ideological, and political controversies about these and many other contempo¬ rary issues. Some of these political issues, as Frank observes in his preface, “are partially hidden below the surface of the social scientific argument.” His earlier pieces were written “to contribute to the Revolution ... to assimilate the Latin American Revolution and the inspiration it finds in the Cuban Revolution.” In the (Continued on back flap.) Wo long e.r f m Boston T: BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/critiqueanticritOOfran CRITIQUE AND ANTI-CRITIQUE Essays on Dependence and Reformism The direction of our scientific exertions, particularly in economics, is conditioned by the society in which we live, and most directly by the political climate (which, in turn, is related to all other changes in society). . . . The cue to the continual reorientation of our work has normally come from the sphere of politics. Responding to that cue, students turn to research on issues that have attained political impor¬ tance. ... So it has always been. The major recastings of economic thought... were all responses to changing political conditions and opportunities. Gunnar Myrdal Asian Drama The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it Karl Marx Theses on Feuerbach Man makes his own history, but not as he pleases. Karl Marx CRITIQUE AND ANTI-CRITIQUE Essays on Dependence and Reformism Andre Gunder Frank PRAEGER SPECIAL STUDIES • PRAEGER SCIENTIFIC New York • Philadelphia • Eastbourne, UK Toronto • Hong Kong • Tokyo • Sydney Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Frank, Andre Gunder, 1929- Critique and anti-critique. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Developing countries—Economic conditions— Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Dependency—Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Economic development—Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Social sciences—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title. HC59.7. F6865 1983 330.91724 83-13683 ISBN 0-03-063737-6 ISBN 0-03-063738-4 (pbk.) Published in 1984 by Praeger Publishers CBS Educational and Professional Publishing, a Division of CBS Inc. 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10175 USA © 1984 by Andre Gunder Frank All rights reserved 456789 052 9876545321 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents PREFA CE vii ON SOCIAL SCIENCE 1: What is the Scientific Value of the Study of the Development of Underdevelopment? None! 3 2: Science and Underdevelopment in the Third World 6 3: On the Political Study of New Nations 20 4: On the Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 25 5: 'Anthropology = Ideology; Applied Anthropology = Politics 31 6: On Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology 42 7: On “Feudal” Modes, Models and Methods of Escaping Capitalist Reality 58 8: Reflections on Green, Red and White Revolutions in India 62 ON ECONOMIC HISTORY 9: On Commercial Imbalances in the Third World 77 10: On Some Questionable Questions about Marxist Theory and International Capital Flows 82 11: Even Heretics Remain Bound by Traditional Thought in Formulating Their Heresies 87 12: A Critical Review of the History of Capitalism in Mexico: The Origins 1521-1763 104 ON POLITICAL ECONOMY Politics and Bias: A Critical Review of Rostow and Hirschman 113 The Theories of Milton Friedman on Chile: Equilibrium on the Point of a Bayonet 125 15: Critique of the Finance Minister's 1970 Report to the Congress of Chile 137 16: The Political Economy of the Economic Policy of the Communist Party of Chile 155 17: An Answer to the Communist Party of Chile Which Went Unpublished in Its Newspaper 161 V 18: The Lessons of Chile 167 19: Is a Left Eurocommunism Possible? 170 20: Kampuchea, Vietnam, China: Observations and Reflections 176 21: After Reaganomics and Thatcherism, What? From Keynesian Demand Management via Supply-side Economics to Corporate State Planning and 1984 189 22: Global Crisis and Transformation 208 23: Policy Ad Hockery: Unemployment and World Crisis of Economic Policy Formation 230 ANTI-CRITIQUE 24: An Answer to Critics 245 25: Real Marxism Is Marxist Realism 279 APPENDIX 26: Introduction, Contents, and Requiem for a Reader on Underdevelopment 293 INDEX 327 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 337