Cardoso, Dependency Theory and Brazil

1 " cardoso , Dependency Theory and Brazil " Gaylord George Candler Indiana University Paper presented at the International Studies Association Midwest, St. Louis, 19 October1996. Introduction The election of Fernando Henrique cardoso , a social scientist highly respected internationally, as president of Brazil represented an interesting experiment for a modern society. While societies typically trust specialized tasks to people trained for those purposes (auto mechanics fix cars; architects design buildings; hairdressers cut hair, etc.); they rarely entrust the government of society to those trained to study and analyze it. cardoso s election was interesting for a second reason as well. His reputation had been made within the Dependency Theory paradigm of political economy, a paradigm with strong roots in Marxist modes of analysis. As a politician, however, cardoso s policies have been widely perceived as strongly conservative. Many, on both the left and right, have attributed this to a change of heart on the part of cardoso , with him seeing the error of his ways (from the right); or selling out (from the left).

6 practitioners of the class approach to marginalize non-industrial societies may originate in Marx's own work. Marx did not systematically address either colonialism or imperialism, and his

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