Nationalism & Capitalism in Peru: A Study in Neo-Imperialism [antikvár]

Foreword It is imperative to caution the reader that this work is only a tentative examination of the economic policy of the Military Junta that has governed Peru from October 1968 to the present (March 1971); it represents merely a preliminary version of a more extensive and more detailed study, now in preparation, of recent trends in Peru that will include an analysis of other essential aspects of the changing situation. The fragment offered here thus does not permit extrapolation of the author's eventual evaluation of the overall history of these developments. Part I is a very slightly revised version of a piece which had a limited circulation in mimeographed form at the Centro de Estudios Socio-Económicos (CESO) of the University of Chile in May 1970. A few pages on the principal trends toward change in the structure of contemporary imperialism have been added. Part II is a compact review of the principal economic measures taken by the military regime from April 1970 to date. In the face of a wide range of views which seek to sum up the nature and meaning of the present Peruvian military regime in the abstract, this work proposes a methodology meant both to serve as an alternative to that engendered by conventional political science, with its facile use of such labels as "populism," "Nasserism," "Bismarcldsm," etc., and to permit an inquiry into what fundamental social interest has profited from the passage of each of the regime's concrete measures, as