It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism.

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Jason Hickel

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It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism. Their response was to impose crushing sanctions on *every single* socialist country, to deny them access to necessary technologies and capital goods in hopes of limiting their industrialization.

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