Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those benefits start, of course, with the fact that the U.S. needs the oil. Economical methods have been developed to get it (estimated cost per bbl.: around $6, or about as much as that of newly found U.S. oil). In each of these, the shale is literally chewed up and...
If the members of this committee become "paper liberals", if we do not discern the crucial point of our existence, we will be ineffective as in the past. Harvard still owns stock in Gulf, Gulf is still in Angola, and instead of the issues being clear-cut, Gulf is changing...
Westernization of the peasantry and the working class is held off, however, for as long as possible. Industrial imperialism depends on workers' accepting the traditional standard of living while laboring at industrial jobs to support foreign companies and the increasing consumer demands of the emerging Western-style managerial elite. The...
The conflict of cultures demands a political choice on the part of artists, who help mold cultural change. The imitators of foreign art ally themselves with foreign exploitation, both cultural and economic. Octavio Paz wrote that Mexican imitators of the European novel presented "a rather sketchy and superficial image" of...
Even stronger has been work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose reputation is based chiefly on the complex novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This novel's approach to the world grows out of the introspective fantasy to Jorge Luis Borges, who is perhaps the only original, yet uncommitted, modern Lating...