THE LATIN AMERICANS, THEIR LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES, CARLOS RANGEL, FIRST EDITION, 1977.

The Latin Americans: Their love-hate relationship with the United States

Rangel, Carlos

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

There is a wide, unthinking acceptance of the premise that the gap between rich and poor countries is largely due to the exploitation of the latter by the former, first through colonialism and more recently through neocolonialism and economic dependency. Carlos Rangel rejects this approach. He traces the sudden appearance and rise of this "Third World ideology" as a kind of socialism of last resort, made necessary by the failure of the original Marxist prophecy of imminent capitalist collapse, with the "proletarian" and "bourgeois" nations substituted for the proletarian and bourgeois classes in the Marxist drama of struggle and salvation through revolution. Rangel also explains the emotional appeal, and therefore pervasiveness, of this ideology not only in the Third World but also among all alienated members of Western society. This volume presents a critical assessment of the Third World ideology. Rangel argues that it is false that Third World misfortunes and shortcomings are directly related to its having been overwhelmed by the West. He offers a new path toward understanding the problem of economic inequality between nations, and therefore opens the possibility of searching for creative solutions to that problem.

Third World Ideology and Western Reality: Manufacturing Political Myth

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

The Latin Americans: Their Love-hate Relationship with the United States

This is a provocative work that runs counter to the conventional wisdom that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. Rangel argues that the reasons for different levels of economic development between North America and Latin America lie in the two continents' divergent history of colonization, the differences between their dominating social structures, and the contrary ethical precepts of Catholicism and Protestantism. Last, but by no means least, there are two all-pervasive myths: in the past, that of the noble savage, in the present, that of the good revolutionary.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

L'Occident et le Tiers-monde (Libertes 2000) (French Edition) by Carlos Rangel. 1982 paperback published by Robert Laffont. Text in French. Translated into French by Georges Liebert. Preface by Jean-Francois Revel.

L'Occident et le tiers-monde

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Robert laffont / Libertés 2000

Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario: mitos y realidades de América Latina (Colección azul) (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Editorial Gota a Gota

Queda como advertencia el pensamiento de Carlos Rangel, que hoy ve de nuevo la luz en la edición que tenemos el privilegio de presentar; la contundencia de unas revelaciones susceptibles de acabar encandilamientos y tonterías; la invitación a poner los pies en una tierra convocada por la autonomía de criterios cuando quitemos entre todos la espesa cortina que la ha ocultado. Cada día se levantan los telones que interfieren la apreciación de las peculiaridades del paisaje, pero también, cada cierto tiempo, reaparecen los buenos revolucionarios tras la pretensión de vengar una autoctonía supuestamente mancillada. De allí, no solo la trascendencia de lo que leerán o volverán a leer de seguidas, sino igualmente su indiscutible actualidad. Más que suficiente para que el autor ser incorpore a la nómina estelar de los grandes pensadores venezolanos. ¿ No les parece ? Métase en sus páginas , respetado lector, y compartirá idéntica opinión.

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