Status Updates From The Global Development Crisis

i asked Selwyn what he thought of this book, considering he wrote it and all, and he was like, “oh, i think it’s great. i think it’s quite clearly written and comprehensive, not to be full of myself” and i’m like, yeah, you’re right, this is acc really good for an higher education book. like BBC bitesize for uni. it’s great.

"[...] struggles against dictatorship contain within them myriad forces and potentialities. [...] the particular democratic and political economic forms that emerge will depend on the power, strategies and capacities of the contending forces [...]" p.207

"The inescapable paradox of development theory and policy - the advocacy of exploiting, oppressing and constraining the human development of labouring classes, for their benefit-." p.185

""By neccesities I understand [...] whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lower order, to be without. Custom has rendered shoes a neccesary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public life without them."" p.177

""The fantasy about the magical value of work for women is a middle-class one - it presumes that jobs are well paid and fulfilling... One must ask if work that is badly paid, back breaking, exploitative, or boring liberates women."" p. 168

""The facts of the economy were originally embedded in situations that were not in themselves of an economic nature [...]."" "[...] not all forms of society in human history can be reduced to market relations and 'the logic of rational action'." pp. 139-140

'"To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment... would result in the demolition of society..."" p.135

""Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the colonies that created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry."" p.122

"[...] the fallacy of composition - that what is good for one country is good for all countries -" p.102

"Industrialisation is not simply a technological issue but requires the reordering of society." p.98

""The privilege of historical backwardness —and such privilege exists— permits, or rather compels, the adoption of whatever is ready in advance of any specified date, skipping a whole series of intermediate stages."" p.80

""Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin when in the black it is branded."" p.65

""The English worker hates the Irish worker because he sees in him a competitor who lowers his standard of life. This antagonism is artificially sustained and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in sort by all means at the disposal of the ruling classes."" p.64

""... the catch-up vision simply presumes that the primary role of working people and their material and social conditions is to serve as instruments and vehivkes of capital accumulation and economic growth."" p.51

""In place of the idea of humanity there emerges a glorification of greatness and power of the state... The ideal now is to secure for one's own nation the domination of the world."" pp.49

""The treasures captured outside Europe by undisguised looting, enslavement and murder flowed back to the mother-country and were turned into capital there."" p.48

""[...] as a class the bourgeois have a common interest, and this community of interest, which is directed against the proletariat inside the country, is directed against the bourgeois of other nations outside the country. This the bourgeois calls his nationality."" p. 47

""We German bourgeois do not want to be exploited by the English bourgeois in the way that you German proletarians are exploited by us and that we exploit one another."" p.46

"[...] Britain presided over Empire where the 'sun never set... and wages never [rose]'." p.39

"[...] Chang (2007) classifies the US and other advanced countries as 'Bad Samaritans' who tell the rest of the world "do as we say, not as we did" in order to take advantage of less developed countries' relatively disadvantageous position vis-à-vis more advanced countries." p. 39

""The crowning success of manufacturing industry lies in the possesion of colonies. [....] This is the reason why the East Indies have been deprived by England of their manufacturing industry, and their independence, and all the warm regions of Asia and Africa must fall by degrees beneat the dominion of the manufacturing and commercial nations of the temperate zone."" p. 37

""It is a vulgar rule of prudence for him who has reached the pinnacle of power to cast down the ladder by which he mounted, that others may not follow..."" p.34

"[...] He constructed historical materialism in order to create a world free of exploitation. At its best, Marxism represents a double pedagogy - of the oppressed and of hope". p.28