[lbo-talk] Semi-peripheries

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Thu, February 11, 2010 5:49 pm, Eubulides wrote:


> There is no periphery or semi-periphery any more.

There most certainly is. Out of the world's 6.7 billion people, 1 billion
live in fully industrialized countries, 1.5 billion in the true periphery,
and 4.2 billion in the semi-peripheries.

My own definition: semiperipheries are regions of the world-system where
there has been significant urbanization, industrialization,
democratization and mediatization, but where the preindustrial, agrarian
and colonial-imperial past is still a powerful cultural, economic and
social reality.

-- DRR