Industrial Capital and Underdevelopment

Geoffrey Kay
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Geoffrey Kay: The City University

Chapter 6 in Development and Underdevelopment: A Marxist Analysis, 1975, pp 125-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The collapse of primary commodity prices during the depression of the 1930s brought all the pressures bearing on merchant capital to a head. The savagely reduced prices it was forced to pay producers in a desperate attempt to protect its profits carried the crisis into the underdeveloped world, which responded with nationalist opposition to the whole political and economic order established in the nineteenth century. This marked the beginning of the end for the phase of underdevelopment in which merchant capital had mediated between the capitalist and non-capitalist worlds and productive capital had scarcely strayed from its homelands.

Keywords: Fixed Capital; Productive Capital; Current Employment; Underdeveloped Country; Organic Composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1975
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-02062-1_7

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