Look to internal causes. This exploitation was established during colonialism and created a legacy that perpetuates underdevelopment. 2. created system to acquire cheap labor- peasant economies attached to plantations. Evolution through capitalism is necessary and desirable. Differentiation is necessary for progress.
Dependency stresses exchange of goods and trading relationships as the basis of exploitation.
Contact between capitalist and non-capitalist countries is always negative for the latter . Marxism stresses ownership of means of production as basis of exploitation. Marxism accepts idea that contact between capitalist and non-capitalist countries may be positive and beneficial for the latter. Criticism of Dependency 1. Only viable route to development is through revolution.