> I don't know what is a "developmental state".
A state which grows the productive forces, instead of plundering them.
> I am not sure what are peripheries and semi-peripheries, and whether they
> are useful categories.
Metropole: owns its own credit, technology, industry (e.g. Japan). Semi- periphery: owns some of its own credit, but dependent on foreign technology and overseas markets (e.g. South Korea). Periphery: has nothing but its labor-power to sell (e.g. rural China).
> Where do you find rising metropoles nowadays?
East Asia and the EU.
-- DRR
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