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Subterranean Modernities and Phantasmal Nations: Some Questions and Observations

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Frederick Luis Aldama
Frederick Luis Aldama*
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , October 2006 , pp. 201 - 209
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Copyright © 2006 by the University of Texas Press

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1. It was at the Bandung conference in 1956 where the heads of the nonaligned states (Mumbia, Nehru, the President of Mexico, Lopéz Mateos) and intellectuals (Malcolm X and Richard Wright, for example) met to declare their “third path” that would neither follow the way of Communism nor that of Capitalism, but something in between. Declared as such or not, most followed Walter Rostow's developmentalism. That is, they declared that the people of these nonaligned states should simply accept their misery and patiently await the arrival of social change; this, of course, was another way of getting the people to submit completely to imperialism.