The problem, as viewed from the left in the global south has for a long time been all about the structural inability to import sufficient capital goods while dependent on raw material exports. I would say that it's not just about exporting capital goods, which is an important part of it, but also trying to make their own technology rign ten. This is where, if you start analyzing even certain projects that we know and now celebrate on the left, including things like project syberson and chile, you can give it a very different spin. And i feel that teorist in the global north, because they don't really think about it from this south versus north paradime, because they
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
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