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Re: Is there a connection with Communism?

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[T]he Study Group of the National Planning Association and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in the early fifties was perceptive, as well as more honest than contemporary ideologists, when it described the primary threat of communism as the economic transformation of the communist powers "in ways which reduce their willingness and ability to complement the industrial economies of the West" (W.Y. Elliot, ed., Political Economy of American Foreign Policy, 1955, p. 42). And if the "developing nations" choose at some point to use their own resources for their own purposes, or to carry out internal social change in ways which will reduce their contributions to the industrial economies of the West (and Japan), these imperial powers must be prepared to employ sufficient force to prevent such unreasonable behavior, which will no doubt be described as "internal aggression" and blamed on the most plausible "enemy" of the day. --Noam Chomsky, Introduction, Virginia Brodine and Mark Selden, eds., Open Secret: The Kissinger-Nixon Doctrine in Asia. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.

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