I have said that the capitalist mode of production dominates and permeates economic activity throughout the world. But the world is not capitalist through and through. In many parts of the Third World, capitalist exploitation is combined with precapitalist and feudal forms of exploitation. Imperialism continues to make use of these economic relations and to reinforce all sorts of backward and reactionary social relations. The alliances between the neocolonial regimes and the landlord classes are part of the whole structure of control and domination exerted by imperialism.
Peasants are still a huge force in the world, as is their semifeudal oppression.
I have said that the world economy is highly integrated. This division of the world, and the grossly unequal distribution of productive forces, is an essential and persistent feature of accumulation and of class relations on a world scale. The imperialist countries are strategically dependent on the Third World as a source of cheap labor, markets, and low-cost raw materials. The oppressed nations are structurally dependent on imperialism. Their economic structures are determined by their subordination to imperialism.