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From International Socialism, No.23, Winter 1965/66, p.33.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Towards a World of Plenty
Barbara Ward
Toronto UP/OUP, 12s.
This book deals briefly with both the development of the advanced North Atlantic economies and colonial territories. The former part is a conventional outline with nothing to recommend it, while the latter deals with the aftermath of colonialism. Ward sees the poverty there, and its causes, and sees the answer in economic imperatives: give more foreign aid; expand the peace corps and have semi-compulsory service abroad for professors; utilize the food surpluses. But no politics anywhere. Not even a mention of the reasons for, and results of, military aid and the foreign bases. Finally – ‘enlightened self interest and morals point in the same direction’ – I wonder what they are saying in Vietnam?
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