Ruy Mauro Marini and 50 years of Dialec-tics of Dependence

Abstract

This article reviews Ruy Mauro Marini's political and intellec-tual career up to the publication of Dialectics of Dependence, linking the evolution of his thought to the historical move-ment to which he belonged. The main objective is to present the author's main theoretical contributions, examining them in the light of the current historical period. The categories put forward by Marini, especially in Dialectics of Dependence, retain a unique explanatory force for the study of Latin American social realities today. Unequal exchange and over-exploitation of the workforce, as categorical abstractions from the concrete reality of Latin America, must be taken up and updated in accordance with the configurations of current dependent capitalism. These contributions are one of the pillars of what the Brazilian and Latin American bibliography has come to call the Marxist Theory of Dependency - as opposed to the Weberian or associated strand of Dependency Theory.

Keywords

• ruy mauro marini
• dialectics of dependence
• latin america
• unequal exchange
• super-exploitation of the workforce