The frontrunners of the inclusive society, Britain and America, are showing worrying signs of lapsing into extractivism. Over all recent books proclaiming the virtues of the Western Way hangs the question: why does it appear to be going wrong? You will find no mention here of the Monroe Doctrine whereby the US claimed the right to regulate life in South America, or the Bay of Pigs invasion, or the Nicaraguan Contras, or the CIA and Pinochet, or exploitative US corporations. The legacy of the plundering conquistadores is repeatedly cited as the cause of South America's failure to develop fully inclusive societies. The one weakness in an otherwise even-handed account is a blind spot with regard to the US treatment of South America.
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