América Latina: ¿clase media de las naciones?

But Lenin was at least on the 'right track· in assuming a lógic of inreraction between vertical calonization of .agradan countries by, in~ dustnaI countrÍes and horizontal colonízatíon of industrial countnes by other industrial states. Lenin did not fuIly understand the nature oE the interaction between vertical dependenc}' and horizontal macro. dependency, but it was a step in the right dlrection to .assume a pro- found linkage between the two. . , We shaH return to other aspects oí this linkage subsequently in out analysis. For the ti<.tpe being l.ef us now turn our attention to pro.. blems oí sub.hegemonic rdations between countries in the Third W ()if\Id itself. OF DEPENDENCY AND MICRO.DEPENDENCY Quite: simply, international micro~dependency arÍses in a' situation whe. re one section oí the underdevdoped or underprivileged wodd 1S disproportionate1y reliant upon another or. disproportionately influen. ced by ,a,oother. The other side of the coiri of micro.dependeney is' mícro-Imperialism 'Úf what is more oIten referred to as sub-Impería– lim. The power oE Siudi .Ar.abia· in the rest oí the Arab W'Úrld has become micro-imperial. The role of Nigeria in Arrlca is slowi y taking a simi'lar dlrection. '. . Micro.·dependencycould be either congruous and natural, or it could be incongruous and unn,a.tural Congruous miotú.dependency arlses where a mu<h larger <ountey, or a much dicher éountry in the Third World, acquiées 'llndue influence over a smaller or pooree rieigh. boro When Brazil begins tú exercise greater influenre on Uruguay, foe example, the relationship would have a natural and congruous dyna– mico If Nigeria already exercÍses disproportionate influence on Niger, that again 15 a case oí congruous hegemony by Nigeeia and <:origruous mkro.depend.ency on the part oI Niger. An incongruous or unnaturaI micro-dependencyarises wheneither the bigger is dependent on the smaller or .the richer "'pon the poerer, or the well-informed upon the ignorant. Thus a situation in whkh a particular Caribbean lsland. becomes dependent on the Africa:n continente for support in order to realize liberation from American hegemony wouId be a case of natural Ínter– national micro-dependency. On the other hand; a situation in which it i5 Africa that 1S dependent upon the Caribbean for fundamental areas of its own continental liberation woU'ld be dearIy a casé oE in_ congruous or unnatural international micro-dependency. , It should be emphasized at this stage that to describ'e a certain form of sub-dependen<y as natU1'al is not. n ~sari.ry to accept it as