Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment: Dependence, Class, and Politics in Latin America

by André Gunder Frank

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Summary

Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment extends further Frank’s well-known thesis on underdevelopment—that underdevelopment in Latin America is not an inherited state, but rather a process which develops and produces backwardness and misery as the counterpart to the wealth produced in the imperialist countries. In this essay he strengthens the methodology and clarifies the relationships between the class forces and their changed settings throughout the history of Latin America.

Thus Dr. Frank is here largely concerned with historical data. His purpose is to examine, throughout the centuries, the relationship between economic dependence, class structure, and the changing policies of lumpendevelopment as they have affected and affect the colonial structure, the agrarian structure, independence, civil wars, liberal reform, imperialism, bourgeois nationalism, and contemporary neo-imperialism. Dr. Frank executes this plan clearly, concisely, and concretely, with an enlightening use of historical materials.
—from the back cover

Includes a Bibliography

Modern Reader PB-285

This translation first published in 1972

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