By Charles Adom Boateng
This paintings contributes to the fields of political technological know-how, sociology, improvement, economics, and diplomacy to provide an realizing of the function and effect of 1 of Africa's, and certainly the complete 3rd World's, major political figures.
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33 In summary, Nkrumah views underdevelopment as a result of imperialism. Imperialists, in Nkrumah's mind, have cleverly postponed their ultimate demise by deviously granting formal independence to their colonies, yet by various economic and political devices, continue to exploit and direct the fortunes of the new states. Also, to Nkrumah, the essence of neocolonialism is that the state which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of inter- 29 national sovereignty; but in reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Also, while Marx stresses ownership and control of the means of production as an explanation of domination and exploitation 21 of one class by another, Weber emphasizes various status groups competing for power. Finally while Marx saw the state on the side of the ruling class, Weber understood the state as the mediating and moderating force that ensures stability and order among all classes and groups. The Dependency Perspective In his Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin wrote: Not only are there two main groups of countries, those owning countries, and the colonies themselves, but also the diverse forms of dependent countries which, politically, are independent but in fact are enmeshed in the net of financial and diplomatic dependency.
Firstly, there is a lack of unified dependency theory. Secondly, there are only a few studies that have attempted to apply the assumptions of dependency to real situations. Thirdly, in setting forth its center-periphery thesis, the ECLA correctly linked underdevelopment to the international system, yet the thesis neglects a close examination of the policies and specific needs of the nations at the center. Finally, dependency theory suffers from weak: conceptualization. For instance, Casanova's "internal colomal" model stresses national rather than external conditions.