Abstract
This article advocates the idea that the debate about the dependence on Latin America was primarily a debate around the possibilities opened up by the development of a specific capitalism. It determined that the advance of the debate revolve around the dispute between socialism and reformism, however without giving up to produce an important theoretical contribution to the Brazilian and Latin American social sciences. We believe that the transition from debate about the dependency to the Marxist camp provided its elevation to the status of theory, understood as part of the theoretical-methodological started by Marx, especially the Ruy M. Marini contribution.
Keywords:
Dependency theory; Latin American social thought; Ruy Mauro Marini