Espacialidade e Dependência em Porto Rico: Operation Bootstrap (1952-1968), sobre a lente da Teoria Marxista do Imperialismo.

Abstract

The present work was configured as an investigation about the industrialization process of Puerto Rico during Operation Bootstrap (1952-1968). The objective of this investigation was to understand what such transformations in production relations can reveal about the colonial relationship experienced by Puerto Rico with its metropolis, the United States of America. In this sense, a methodological design is made starting from Dialectical Historical Materialism, and as a theoretical framework, the use of the Marxist Theory of Imperialism was used, with a special focus on the conceptual re-reading carried out by the British geographer David Harvey in his work The New Imperialism (2003). We also sought to situate political economy geographically through the use of the Marxist Theory of Dependency, as elaborated by Ruy Mauro Marini. Among the results found, it is clear that the industrialization of Puerto Rico will not occur organically, but within a specific international context that favored the intensification of its submission to the USA. Furthermore, it is noted that the political economy of the island has a deeply contradictory and dialectical character, resulting in a fragile tension due to two factors in particular: the existence of a strong migratory flow towards the metropolis; and the dependent nature of its political economy.