The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchan… - Paul A. Baran

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by colonization and by unequal treaties, it became an appendage of the "internal market" of Western capitalism.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.