“…The emergence and developmental success of these states-many of which, unlike South Africa, are not beholden to the IMF, World Bank and northern banks-forces back onto the agenda the 'sub-imperial' question of the autonomy of and the relation between, these states, their elites and core states and capital. Seeking to address these actors, Samson and others have returned to the original Latin American conceptions of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably the work of Ruy Mauro Marini, which focused on how relations between Brazil and the United States changed Brazil's class relations, changing in turn the autonomy of the Brazilian state and its relations with the US state and multinationals (Marini 1965(Marini , 1972.…”