Democracy Is Not Enough [antikvár]

This is a book about the underdeveloped nations and territoriesof Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is a book about thenearly two billion human beings, most of them with yellow,black, or brown skins, who have not achieved the 50-per-centadult literacy and the $200 a year per capita income markwhich with some variation can be taken as the dividing linebetween underdevelopment and development, between the Hun-gry World and the sated world. It is a book about problems andchoices, theirs and ours.This Hungry World is of great and growing importance tothe United States. It includes most of our planet's populationand resources. Its restive millions, fired with new desires andhopes and armed with new weapons, are demanding and win-ning freedomthe right to govern or misgovern themselves.As these new nations emerge through self-government toindependence, they are looking for help and guidance. They aregroping for patterns of thought, for a political and economicphilosophy, for administrative and technical aid, for capital,and most of all for understanding. Until recently the only placefor them to turn was to the West, with its Christian ideals oflove and charity, its wealth, and its proclaimed political democ-racy. Today the Communist world presents an alternative.