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Oliver, Mary
West and Soviet Russia, gradually jelling with China Junta is madly trying to coax oil companies in to ex- also. The basic understanding was that the socialist plore, letting them...
...They have a free hand to maintain they have painted themselves into a corner...
...client states" in return for their raw materials, mineral and agricultural, thus escaping from Henry Ford's dilem- The dream of my life ma of having to pay his workers enough to enable them Is to lie down by a slow river to buy his cars...
...the markets and the industrial base of the global com- They stretch their glossy necks panies headquartered in the United States, the EEC In the tallest branches and Japan, by providing cheap labor and raw materials...
...the technology for new leaps forward, technology which Here the experience of Brazil may be significant...
...That trial growth without social change, a system which can be done only by naked repression, the level of which Brazilian political scientist Helio Jaguaribe has called must grow in proportion to the frustrations and hates fascism...
...Yet even in Brazil, each attempt during Russian or Chinese support (now denied) is remote...
...Most naive and develop their own system of exploitation...
...Between me and the sun, To pay for these industrial imports, Chile has prac- And I should go now...
...Brazil's tradition was much less democratic than that of Within the West, a 3-tier system of exploitation is Chile, and the sector of the population which lived emerging, one so highly organized and efficiently policed outside the money economy and the political system that the possibility of breaking out of it without massive was far bigger...
...The No eater of leaves...
...at a second be clamped on...
...less, provides no alternatives...
...It is fascist because it restricts the benefits of it creates...
...technology and its advanced products in return for raw General Pinochet was more realistic when he answered materials from the Soviet bloc and China, raw materials their call for more democracy by saying there was no now desperately needed...
...Of green trees...
...their systems, have proved incapable of generating...
...The "Brazilian miracle" saw an increase in the percentage of the gross domestic product enjoyed by the 00000000000000 richest one percent of Brazilians from 11.5 to 18.2 in a decade, while the share of the poorest 50 percent fell from 17.8 to 14.3 percent...
...Chileans have a tradition of political activity and For the United States and the European "haves," the involvement, and few of them seem yet to realize that benefits are obvious...
...Lens of attention...
...The function of the subimperial states is to extend The crows see me...
...tically nothing to offer but copper, a metal whose price They know me for what I am...
...Here the future was already anticipated in January with a credit from Brazil to buy medical supplies and a But the crows puff their feathers and cry hundred fire engines...
...At the past decade to democratize the system quickly rethe top is the United States surrounded by the advanced vealed such discontent that the lid of repression had to nations which participate in its hegemony...
...The basic understanding was that the socialist plore, letting them write their own tickets...
...fluctuates wildly and which is particularly sensitive to No dreamer, the world recession that many see in the offing...
...economic process as superfluous to the labor needs, The characteristic of the subimperial states is indus- leaving them to fend for themselves like beasts...
...The Nixon-Kissinger world order, nevertheprogress to the oligarchy and the global companies...
...And stare at the light in the treesChile, with a population of a mere ten million, and To learn something by being nothing lacking natural and geographic advantages, has no role A little while but the rich other than that of client state within this world economy...
...West and Soviet Russia, gradually jelling with China Junta is madly trying to coax oil companies in to exalso...
...Russia and China in turn get prospect of elections for at least five years...
...across the dividing lines...
...I am Their output is in turn exported to the third tier of Entering the kingdom...
...It is colonial because it MARY OLIVER depends "on the West in general and on the United States in particular, due to its need for foreign assistance ENTERING THE KINGDOM and foreign markets...
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...The economy now proposed for Chile level, the subimperial states of Brazil, Indonesia, South calls for the exclusion of four million Chileans from the Africa, the Philippines and Iran...
...Meanwhile, advances in the Russian and Chinese spheres were ir- it has to take the copper companies back on face-saving reversible, but neither Russia nor China would promote terms, but always on the understanding that the sophistheir expansionism in the West, just as the United ticated processing will continue to be done outside States and its allies would refrain from making mischief Chile...
...In addi- of all are the Christian Democrats who think they can tion, they are offered attractive new markets for their reverse history and go back to a pre-Allende situation...
Vol. 100 • July 1974 • No. 17
