In a briefing for US
ambassadors to Latin American countries in 1950, (George) Kennan observed that a major
concern of US foreign policy must be “the protection of our [i.e. Latin
America’s] raw materials.” We must
therefore combat a dangerous heresy which, US intelligence reported, was
spreading through Latin America: “the idea that the government has direct
responsibility for the welfare of the people.”
US planners call that idea Communism,
whatever the actual political views of the people advocating it. They can be church-based self-help groups or
whatever, but if they support this heresy, they’re Communists.
(from How The
World Works by Noam Chomsky)
7½*/10.
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