Transnational Class Alliances in Zambia

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ID6247963
AuthorsRonald T Libby (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume15
Issue4
Pages379
Publication date1983-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4159 • E-ISSN: 2151-6227
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/421849
OpenAlexW2315040739
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

Dependency and Marxist theory has tended to employ a deductive approach to understanding the internal conditions in peripheral capitalist countries. The tendency is to infer from aggregte data on, for example, capital flows, trading patterns, production, and inflation the impact upon domestic economic sectors and classes.' This approach, however, fails to take into account the autonomous role of indigenous elites and in either promoting or blocking capital accumulation in peripheral societies. The tendency in this literature is to treat the indigenous bourgeoisie in peripheral capitalist societies as being subordinate to international capital interests. However, the relationship between indigenous social groups and multinational corporations (MNCs) is properly conceived as a confluence of interests between foreign capital and classes within peripheral countries. The precise nature of alliance formation varies, depending, in part at least, upon the economic importance of foreign enterprise and the specific vulnerabilities and threats to dominant within peripheral countries. This relationship can only really be understood on the basis of empirical investigation

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