Petróleo e dependência: acumulação de capital e subdesenvolvimento nas relações sino-venezuelanas

Abstract

The thesis presented here aims to analyze the processes in the scope of geopolitics and the world economy, combined with national development factors, which led Venezuela to the perpetuation of the underdeveloped country situation and the current politicaleconomic crisis. For this, the following questions will be analyzed: the Venezuelan historical development under the mode of capitalist production; The characterization of the country as a dependent and peripheral social formation, as well as its position in the international division of labor; the use of oil rents as the main source of national development policies and; relations with China, especially with regard to financial, commercial and cooperation processes. The mobilization of related (and related) theoretical landmarks to the methodological bases of historical-dialectical materialism help in understanding the dynamics that involve the development parameter of Venezuelan capitalism in contemporary times, as well as their vicissitudes, from the Marxist Theory of Dependence.