Mais além da antropologia pós-estruturalista do desenvolvimento, de volta à teoria marxista da dependência

Brazilian students of Anthropology and of the related fields usually get in contact with the academic debates on developmental studies through canonic texts rooted in the anglo-saxon poststrucuturalism of a Foucaultian matrix. Born in the nineties, soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, these writings caricaturize the Marxist thought and completely neglect one of its most creative innovations: the Marxist Theory of Dependency (MTD). In this article, I defend that the policy of putting aside the studies of MTD deprives undergraduate and graduate students of the social sciences, especially Anthropology students, of an important theoretical tool that could help stimulate the creativity of their critical thinking. As a way of counteracting such tendencies, I suggest the rehabilitation of some MTD insights, which go beyond the political economy terrain and stimulate profound debates about the possibilities of an immanent critic of the power and domination structures that result from capitalist development.