>In other words, Pat Bond is correct that a nation should first of all
>isolate itself from the developed world (i.e. from the imperialist core)
>if it ever wants, eventually, to attract industrial investment from the
>imperial center.
Countries as large as the USSR and China can do this - if they're skilled and luck. Small countries (and in this context, Brazil is probably closer to small than large) can't - they don't have the internal market to do it. They've got to band together if they want to develop seriously (or be well-positioned in the Cold War, like S Korea).
North Korea has shut itself off from the developed world, and people there are eating bugs and grass.
Doug