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Reflexive appraisal
Whether one accepts or rejects the positions of Marxism, these considerations are important for they alert on two aspects of the problem of development that contemporary thinkers too much tend to gloss over. In the first place, the societies which we today call “underdeveloped” are not so by their own making, and it would be false to conceive of them as being exterior to western development or as being indifferent to the development of the west. Actually, it is these societies, which through their direct or indirect destruction between the 16th and the 19th century made the development of the west possible. Between them and the west there exists a relationship of complementarity. Development itself, and its exigencies have made them what they are as development finds then today.
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We hold a B.Sc. [Honours] degree in Sociology and for some time now have been mostly engaged in the teaching of undergraduate Sociology [since 1999]. On scholarship we are inclined to systems of knowledge and systems analyses. We are a very private person and cherish musing and long solitary walks. We also enjoy the company of people with a good education and who are interested in Social Theory.When we are not in acivity we cherish reading, long solitary walks, conversations on spirituality and the company of fine people.
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