Word: american
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Besides preventing socialism, however, I think that American investment also prevents the development of a capitalist economy. It enforces a very unequal distribution of wealth which prevents the economy from growing, and often prevents the growth of a local bourgeoisie...
Please excuse the little screed about "imperialism." To oppose the CFIA, it is first necessary to reject even the possibility of a successful development, measured in terms of the people of a country, by American investment. It is possible, I will admit, that after continuous massive doses of foreign aid, as in Formosa, an underdeveloped country can experience an increase in per capita income...
...main effect of the 50 DAS advisers, however, is to increase and expand markets. Those "markets" benefit American business. The DAS helps to stabilize and consolidate those economies. Whether the purpose is to aid American investment or to establish market economies makes little difference...
Last summer, about 100 students from Brazil came to Cambridge for a week under the auspices of a large number of American corporations. I was here, and had nothing else to do, and so I talked with them quite a lot. One said that "All of the real student leaders in Brazil were either in jail, in exile, or dead." Another explained that "Armed struggle has already begun in Brazil." I wondered why the Center had not asked one of them to come...
...What is the American ideology...