The central purpose of this article is to discuss the main categories of the Marxist Theory of Dependence. This effort is justified because this the-oretical perspective has been being retrieved in recent years. Firstly, there is a discussion on the original meaning of what the theory understands by dependence and, based on that, the specific nature of the integration of economies dependent on world capitalism. Then, in addition to reaffirming the central character of the overexploitation of labor as a specific feature of these economies, it is argued that this is only intelligible when understood as the response of dependent capitalism to different forms of transfer of value to the central economies. In view of the fore-going, the article concludes with notes on the directions that can be taken by a critical recovery of the Marxist theory of dependence.
dependence; overexploitation; Marxism