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...attitudes have changed little since the days of Simón Bolívar. Besides, the lawyer argued, others had done the same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even have a verb for Indian-hunting-guahibiar (which...
...long been fashionable to distinguish the young Marx-compassionate and angry in his sociology and undeniably idealistic in his belief in mass worker democracy-from the mature author of Das Kapital. Harrington, by contrast, finds the early convictions undiminished in fervor throughout Marx's writings and actions, except for a period at the time of the revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto. He is a surprisingly effective advocate even when he must argue such an essential but difficult point as that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat "does not mean dictatorship but the fulfillment of democracy...
MacEwan added that "the DAS policy in Pakistan was not a mistake, but a logical outgrowth of their ideology and values...
...there are lesser villains in the cast of characters, villains who were often unwitting. The DAS appears to fit into this latter characterization. It would be far from accurate to term the men of the DAS as slavering imperialists. They are well-meaning men who have labored in the far corners of the globe, but they have worn ideological blinders that have prevented them from realistically assessing the problems of developing nations. One hopes that Arthur MacEwan is wrong and that future development policies in the other DAS projects will change dramatically. One hopes that the Pakistan experience will teach...
...final example that summarizes the wrongheadedness of the DAS' planning strategy in Pakistan can be found in the preface to Gustave Papanek's Pakistan's Development. Papanek thanks the "300 industrialists and government officials" he contacted for their cooperation and assistance in helping him to write the book. Hopefully, books about future DAS projects will also contact the mass of the people before lauding the success of a development policy