The Cold War framework built the world we live in, and almost nobody teaches it as a framework. It is taught as: a conflict between "freedom" and "communism,
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The Cold War framework built the world we live in, and almost nobody teaches it as a framework.
It is taught as: a conflict between "freedom" and "communism," in which the United States "defended liberty" against Soviet "totalitarianism."
What it actually was: a global competition for control of the postcolonial world.
A system in which the United States supported, funded, and protected governments that kept their resources available to Western capital and corporations, regardless of those governments' democratic character, human rights record, or the welfare of their populations.
The democracies that were removed: Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Congo, Brazil.
The dictatorships that were supported: Mobutu, Hissène Habré, Somoza, Pinochet, Suharto, Marcos, Park Chung-hee, the Shah.
The variable was not democracy.
The variable was compliance.
Teaching this as a freedom-versus-communism story is not an oversimplification.
It is an inversion.
It takes the actual operational logic, comply and receive support, defy and receive destabilization, and replaces it with a moral framework that makes the perpetrators into heroes and makes the victims' suffering into an acceptable cost of the heroic project.
Generations learned the inversion and not the logic.
The inversion is still being taught.
The logic is still operating.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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