Peace and Economic Development
Peace and Economic Development
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和平与经济发展
DOI:
10.1080/00064246.1987.11412747
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
0.4
通讯作者:
Fidel Castro
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作者:
Fidel Castro
0 ur world faces two mortal and hitherto unknown dilemmas-peace or total self-destruction a· just international economical order or the mo~ t horrible fate for the vast majority of the peoples of the earth here represented, even if peace were achieved. The worst of the two dilemmas corresponds to the peoples of the third world. We could be swept from the face of the earth in a war for which we do not have the slightest responsibility and in which we take no part. We could be crushed by hunger and poverty by virtue of a world economic order which was not created by us and which emerged and developed in spite of us and against us. One day, several years ago, I said before the United Nations that when the philosophy of plunder. ceases, the philosophy of war will cease.The conquest and colonization carried out in past centuries at the expense of the peoples of America and Asia by a handful of European powers that raped, killed, murdered and uprooted tens of millions of people from their homelands in order to enslave them. Inspired by this philosophy of pillage, plunder and exploitation of other people, the colonizers extracted as much gold and silver as possible from the entrails of our soil, and countless tons of sugar, coffee, cocoa, tea, cotton and products for the colonial societies to enjoy wrested from the sweat of slaves. Thus capitalism, and later imperialism and neo-colonialism, emerged, bleeding from every pore. T~ is does not have to be studied'in any book of Marxism because it is written with