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The Green Revolution is a series of breakthroughs in seed-fertilizer technology that produce biological & mechanical innovations. But the 2 types of innovations have opposite effects on costs. Biological innovations are labor-absorbing & tend to raise total farm costs while mechanical innovations are labor-saving & tend to reduce overhead costs. The quantum jump in agri'al output may thus be accompanied by a reduction in labor's share of the income, increased income class disparities & growing regional diff's. ED experts had predicted that the Green Revolution was a panacea initiating & sustaining self-sufficiency in Third World nations. However, their analysis of the impact of technological innovation was divorced from its context--the instit'al limitations of the capitalist system. The benefits of the Green Revolution are distributed unequally within econ'ly developing societies, & the dominance of advanced capitalist nations is maintained through internat'l market mechanism. Only in socialist economies, where colonial ties have been severed, industr production & agri were collectivized & central planning has been introduced can fully utilize the liberating potential of the Green Revolution. Unfortunately there are no data or past experiences for the Green Revolution in socialist developing economies.