New Geographies of Uneven Development in Global Formation: Thinking with Chase-Dunn

From Uneven and Combined Development to “Global Formation” In his well-known essay comparing Skocpol and Trotsky, Michael Burawoy considers how Leon Trotsky’s theory of uneven and combined development extends the Marxist research program. As Burawoy explains, Trotsky’s efforts to defend the core tenets of historical materialism led him to reject Marx’s oft-cited claim from the opening pages of Capital that “the country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.” This is not