ROMERO, Fernando Gabriel. Imperialism and Argentine agriculture. Recent history of foreign capital in the Pampean agro-industrial complex.
Buenos Aires, CICCUS, UNILA, CIEA-UBA, 2016, 507 pp.
Keywords:
imperialism, Argentine agro, foreign capital, history, capitalismAbstract
Fernando Romero Wimer addresses in this book the role of foreign capital in the Pampean agro-industrial system in the period 1976 - 2008. The general questions that guide his research are: “what has been and what character has the incidence of foreign capital adopted about the Pampean agro-industrial system? Did these capitals contribute to the enrichment and development of the country, or on the contrary, did they hinder and deform it? " (p. 26) Therefore, he intends to explain and weigh the interference of foreign capital in this particular productive complex, and analyze its socio-economic and political implications.
The author conceptually frames the work in the studies on imperialism and dependency in the Pampean agro-industrial complex. As Azcuy Ameghino points out in the prologue, this book contributes and deepens the traditional anti-imperialist currents. In particular, the theoretical orientation focuses on historical materialism based on the concepts of concentration and centralization of capital, the export of capital and the development of the monopolistic tendencies of capitalism. As well as resorting to concepts that allow addressing the recent changes in global productive dynamics unleashed since the end of the 1970s. In this sense, the temporal delimitation of the research between 1976-2008 refers to changes at the national level mediated by recovery of power by the local intermediary bourgeoisie that implemented a neoliberal-deindustrializing strategy, within a framework of productive restructuring at the world level. In addition, the research that led to the publication is presented as an intersectoral analysis approached through methodological triangulation that includes a wide variety of sources surveyed.
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