Dependence and Freedom

With the remarkable resurrection of radical dependency theory in Latin America and the world as a whole in recent years, Martin Arboleda’s Dependence and Freedom stand out in historically situating the most fertile period of Marxist dependency theory in the rise of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government in Chile in the early 1970s. In this way, he resurrects dependency theory in its most revolutionary political as well as economic form, rooted in an immanent critique of imperialism-a perspective that is indispensable for organized resistance struggles in the twenty-first century – John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review and author of Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx
Arboleda’s book couldn’t be timelier, as dependency theory not only remains critical for explaining the perils of the Global South but also Europe’s digital dependence. It leaves us with the task of updating dependency theory as both an economic theory and a political legacy – Cecilia Rikap, author of The Rulers

Martín Arboleda is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He obtained his PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His research explores the political economy of globalized extraction, as well as the political and intellectual history of Latin American theories of development and underdevelopment. His fields of interest include global political economy, critical social theory, and development studies. He is the author of the book Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso Books, 2020), as well as of Gobernar la utopía: sobre la planificación y el poder popular (Caja Negra Editora, 2021). His research has been published in several scholarly journals as well as in non-academic outlets.

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