Buku

The third world calamity

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One of the greatest impediments to understanding the chronic socio-economic stagnation that characterizes most of the Third World is the belief that it was caused by Western imperialism, which is thought to have blocked development forces that were burgeoning, or about to burgeon. In fact, the West is no more to blame for the present impasse than for the widespread Afro-Asian inertia that preceded European intervention. But other, more serious, charges may be laid. The West's neo-colonialists and leftist ideologists, each in their own way, are trying to push Third World countries towards economic and social goals, European in concep- tion, that lie beyond impenetrable psycho-cultural barriers; the consequence is not development but destruction. The object of this chapter is not to whitewash imperialism, which is indefensible and was by no means inevitable; there were always people, such as Warren Hastings, who opposed the subjection of people in Asia or Africa to European rule. The aim is rather to help clarify a critical present-day problem. No balance sheet of the debits and credits of colonialism will be

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909.1724 May t

Publisher

London : Routledge., 1981

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pages 269

Language

English

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0710007647

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909.1724

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Sejarah Indonesia

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