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Title:On bourgeois development theory: a critique of Behrendt
Author:Asamoa, AnsaISNI
Year:1982
Periodical:Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:7
Issue:3
Pages:87-108
Language:English
Geographic term:developing countries
Subjects:sociology
development
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/43657736
Abstract:This paper is a contribution to the efforts by Marxists to expose the reactionary nature of sociological theory which, loaded with procapitalist principles of functionalists, is intended to guide the developing countries in planning and executing their socioeconomic development strategies. The exposure prevents tightly cornered African palaeo-functionalists from hiding unnoticed under the umbrella of 'new theory', using the latter as a cover for the continuation of their paleo-functionalist approach. This paper thus helps to further the course of the anti-neo-colonial struggle not only in Africa but also in other parts of the developing world. While casual references are made here and there in this paper with regard to different theoretical modes and trends represented by bourgeois modernization theorists, the basis of the critical discussion in this paper lies in the ideas of the German theorist Richard Behrendt, published in his book 'Soziale Strategic fur Entwicklungsländer' (1968). Bibliogr., notes, sum. in French.
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