Latin America:
Blockages to Development

• Abstract
•  Preface

First Section:

• The Making of a New Social Formation
• 1. Merchant's capital - The actors: the Maya empire, the Aztec empire, the Inca empire.
• 2. The collision, dissolution and fusion of two modes of production
• 3. Development. The Hacienda system.The social pyramid

Second Section:

• Second Section: Towards a Theory of Latin America's "Underdevelopment"
• 1. Independence and after. Economic structure. The economic viability of an industrial revolution in Latin America.
  Social structure.
  Backwardness as a system.
  Consolidation of the hacendados.
• 2. Production, distribution, exchange and consumption.
  A fractured system of production.
  A fractured system of distribution.
  A fractured social structure.
  The role of the Army. A critical assessment.
• 3. The role of imperialism in Latin America: a new approach.

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• Conclusion
• Bibliography