ABSTRACT
Marx's theory of colonialism has proved to be inadequate in theoretical and empirical terms and this inadequacy is partly illustrated by the major disagreements within neo-Marxist theories of dependency and underdevelopment. Indeed, Marx's views on colonialism are secondary to the main focus of his theoretical work, namely, the crises of social formations in which the CMP is dominant. While Marx's view of colonialism is usually called upon as the basis of a critique of conventional sociology of development, Marx's view of the impact of the CMP on colonial society as it is expressed in his articles in the New York Daily Tribune is often not very far removed from conventional 'bourgeois' sociology. In 1953, the European settlers produced some 65 per cent of the total agricultural product. Agriculture is dominated by colonial viticulture which prior to independence represented 35 per cent of the gross vegetable output and over half of Algeria's exports to France.
