Introduction Various scholars have defined the word development differently. Generally, development refers to a social, economic, and cultural process that aims at promoting human needs and conditions such as living standards, good health, and provision of adequate education. The process of development usually aims at fulfillment of human needs in an equitable manner and without any discrimination. However, this is usually not the case in many countries in the world, especially those in global South. For example, the global South countries such as those in Africa, Asia, and Latin America usually face a number of problems and challenges among the, being political, social, cultural, and economic. Besides, these challenges and problems result from various structural failures that hinder their economic and social development (Vidal, 563). In most cases, these countries experience lack of enough resources, poverty, ethnic and regional conflicts, hunger, mass displacements, environmental degradations, poor education level, corruption, lack of democracy, abuse of civil and human rights and even cultural conflicts (Sutton, 222). Therefore, for proper development to be realized in these countries, the above challenges must be confronted through proper policies and procedures (Vidal, 560). According to Marxist theory, a number of structures lead to poor development in global South countries. These include lack of advanced and modern technology, lack of enough knowledge and skills to apply in production, and over-exploitation of workers by the capitalists (Sutton, 228). This paper will discuss the Marxist theory of development, which provides that countries in global south have structural features that prevent them from achieving full-fledged development. Marxist theory of development Marxist theory of development views economic development in three perspectives (Waller, 1006). To begin with, this theory focuses on the interpretation of the materialistic and economic history. Here, Marx argues that the economic aspect and interpretation of history of materialistic attempts indicates the historical perspective of how various countries came to posses the resources they have today (Waller, 1008). In fact, it tries to indicate that various economic events are due to a number of economic struggles that occurred between different social classes and groups in the community in the past years. However, these struggles continue even in current social environment. Furthermore, the theory argues that the main cause of these conflicts and struggles is mainly on the relations between the mode or means of production and the relations of production. In that sense, mode of production means a specific pattern of production in a particular society that determines social life, political life, and religious arrangement of a society (Vidal, 555). The relations pattern of production shows the various class structures of a society that determine their production output (Scheiber, 28). Firstly, there is the organization of labor system including division of labor, labor cooperation, skills of labor, and status of labor, which incorporates social environment and the degree of freedom and servitude in the society. Secondly, there is