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Dependency means that a nation’s economy does not make progress in accordance with the desire, will or necessity of the people, but it is sacrificed by the economy of other nations or the international trend. Dependency theory was advocated mainly by the scholars from Central and South Americas around the 1960’s. Moreover, this theory is a theoretical system of leftists with radical inclination, and pays attention to the fact that an underdeveloped nation free itself from the state of being underdeveloped because it has lost its own peculiarity or self-control under the control of developed capitalistic nations. They disclose and criticize the status and inconsistency of the subordinate structure : and assert, with the catch phrase : severance from outside and revolution inside, that their theory applies to all developing nations. But most of the dependency theorists are Neo-marxists ; and they, in short, make a negative criticism of capitalism while they make a corrective and complementary criticism of Marxist or communist economy. Therefore, it must be realized that those who believed in dependency theory analyzed and criticized capitalism not because they wanted to economically develop capitalism, but because they wanted to break down capitalistic economy and construct socialism. In our country, some intelectuals were some what attracted by dependency theory and showed emotional reaction when immense foreign capital and technology were introduced in accordance with our economic development policy in the 60’s and 70’s, accelerating economic inconsistency, disparity of incame distribution and the deepening of dependency on foreign countries. But if we had shut off our economy from that of our friendly nations in order to effect our independent development based on dependency theory, our economy would have been in danger of being ruined instead of being developed independently, and the existence of our nation itself would have been impossible. Considering our present situation, our obvious task after all is to have belief in mutual dependence, not dependence on foreign countries, and to make efforts to realize and enlarge its possiblities. We must not be possessed with ideologic fictitiousness, but we must be wise enough to display our ability to the full and pay attention to the conditions of mutual dependence and understand correctly the didactic meaning of the dependency theory.
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