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‘To change masters is not to be free.’ José Martí. By Ian Ellis-Jones February 12, 2021 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Cuba perhaps more than most other countries has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation. The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception.
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February 12, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Cuba perhaps more than most other countries has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation.
The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception.
There are also other lasting impacts. Marxist political economists Paul Baran (
The Political Economy of Growth,
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957) and André Gunder Frank (
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967) wrote of the devastating long-term effects of imperial dominance. Frank described those effects as ‘the development of underdevelopment’.
According to the Baran-Frank thesis, as it is known, an underdeveloped country is not in a state of ‘static equilibrium’ preventing development. On the contrary, underdevelopment is the result of imperial dominance, leading also to a chronic state of dependency. Colonis