•
The imperialism system
changed the
colonized
nations into sources of cheap inputs to production
in the capitalist nations, as well as markets for their
products.
This arrangement always worked to the
advantage of the imperial power
.
•
This was the fundamental argument of the Marxist
School of thought, which came to be known as the
Dependency Theory
.
•
The following are the
main arguments of the
Dependency Theory
(McKay
1990
:
55
–
56
):
1
. The developed countries (the First World)
could not have achieved the level of development
that they have, without the systematic exploitation
of the developing countries (the Third World
).
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