Comment by joe_the_user

This is fascinating...

Leon Trotsky, of all people, had a theory of "uneven and combined development" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uneven_and_combined_development

Essentially, this says an under-developed area has an opportunity to leapfrog the most develop areas, producing an entire new paradigm of development.

By the time African villages directly contact the West, they may have an entirely different form of capitalism we may be emulating...