La intelligentsia satélite : los intelectuales canadienses frente a los Estados Unidos

Stephen Clarkson

doi:10.5354/0719-3769.1972.17760

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Stephen Clarkson

Abstract

The enigma of contemporary Canada is why a society so technically developed, with such a high standard of living - though so dominated by a foreign power - has produced neither a national capitalist class nor a national intelligentsia that has the economic power and intellectual leadership to lead the country towards independence. This paper offers an explanation of why Canadian students, teachers, and authors failed to provide thought leadership in the face of the country's main external problem: its relationship with the United States. The matter can be summarized very simply. Canada, a transplanted nation with a branch economy, has not had a national intelligentsia in the sense is understood in most Latin American countries, but has had an academic structure implanted from outside, professionally incapable of responding to the problems of dependency of the nation.

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Canada, Intelligentsia, United States, Dependency, Foreign Policy

Author Biography

Stephen Clarkson

Es profesor asociado en el Departamento de Economía Política de la Universidad de Toronto. Realizó sus estudios doctorales en las universidades de Oxford y París. Ha trabajado especialmente en los problemas relacionados con la política exterior del Canadá y con la posición soviética frente a los países en desarrollo. Ha publicado numerosos artículos en revistas académicas y la prensa. Es autor de "L'analyse Sovietique des problémes Indiens du sous-développement" y "The changing face of communism", y editor de "An independent foreign policy for Canadá?

La intelligentsia satélite : los intelectuales canadienses frente a los Estados Unidos

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