inking about development would imply understanding the dynamics of capital accumulation in the Western timeline (Europe and later, North America and
Oceania) and for this purpose, history has brought us two subsequent, but concomitant stages, when it comes to explaining accumulation. ese two great stages are Antiquity and the Middle Ages, both of which allow us to understand part of our realities today. e developing underdeveloped or poor
countries, not having the same historical construction of pillage-accumulation, land-accumulation, trade-accumulation, and accumulated capital-production, are placed in the position of countries to be plundered or colonized, since they do not have their own capitals. ey are only le with natural treasures and,
being dependent on nature, they are exposed to losing resources in exchange for capital, but this, in turn, implies, as in any market economy, that only a very small part of the population benefits, while the rest of it is affected by this development.