{"id":49211,"date":"2021-10-02T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=49211"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:22:43","slug":"developmentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/developmentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Against the &#8220;Evils&#8221; of Developmentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is developmentalism? Which economic groups does developmentalism benefit? Why did corporations try to overthrow developmentalist policies?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developmentalism is an economic school of thought which states that the best way for developing countries to speed up their growth is by developing their internal markets, limiting imports, and nationalizing certain industries. Developmentalism has had a tremendous impact on the growth of many Third World countries. However, the policies that helped the common people were hurting the rich and powerful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article, you\u2019ll learn about economic developmentalism, and corporations&#8217; efforts to fight back against \u201cits evils.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Is Developmentalism?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Developmentalism is an economic theory stating that the best way for developing countries to grow is to establish strong internal industries and raise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-does-the-government-raise-money\/\">government revenue<\/a> by nationalizing certain resources like oil. In other words, industry and the government would support one another, and the entire country\u2019s economy would prosper as a result. Developmentalism also called for high tariffs on imported goods to encourage \u201cbuying local.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developmentalism, combined with heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-should-the-government-spend-money-on\/\">government spending<\/a> and strong social programs, was having enormous positive impacts on the economy and quality of life in many Third World countries. For example, Argentina had the largest middle class in South America during the Developmentalist period, while Uruguay boasted universal health care and a 95% literacy rate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, corporate interests and feudal landowners saw that the developmentalist policies were taking \u201ctheir\u201d land and money and giving it away to the lower classes. To counter the economic policies that were hurting their profits, corporations enlisted the help of American and British foreign policy groups to warn that developmentalist policies would lead to communism. In short, they wanted to push developing countries into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/us-versus-them\/\">Us versus Them<\/a> mindset of the Cold War: anything that wasn\u2019t pure, unchecked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/capitalism-theory\/\">capitalism<\/a> was communism, and communism was evil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Expanding the Cold War<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interest of furthering the fight against \u201ccommunism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-cia-operations-technology-langley\/\">the CIA<\/a> launched two coups d\u2019etat against Iran and Guatemala\u2014two countries whose economies were much more Keynesian than Stalinist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1953 the CIA ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, an Iranian leader who had brought the nation\u2019s oil company under government control. In doing so, the CIA returned power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was more willing to cooperate with foreign companies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, in 1954, the CIA overthrew President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala, allowing the United Fruit Company\u2014a massive American corporation with a long history of violence and human rights violations\u2014to operate unimpeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those first coups happened relatively easily. However, developmentalism was much more entrenched in the Southern Cone of South America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, which together had some of the most advanced and successful developmentalist economies), and fighting it would take a bit more cunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nixon\u2019s Economic War on Chile<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When then-president Richard Nixon heard that Salvador Allende had won the 1970 election in Chile\u2014running on a platform of nationalizing major portions of the economy that were currently being run by corporations\u2014<strong>he famously ordered CIA director Helms to \u201cmake the economy scream.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heeding the call to arms, powerful American corporations\u2014who had large stakes in Chile\u2019s phone service, mining operations, and other industries that would soon be bought up by the government\u2014banded together to squeeze Chile\u2019s economy. They planned to block US loans, stop buying anything from Chile for six months, and do whatever they could to make sure that no American money flowed into the country. They planned to make Allende capitulate by threatening him with total economic collapse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for all their efforts, Allende not only kept his office, but his party also gained even more support in the 1973 midterm elections. Clearly, the Chilean people strongly supported Allende\u2019s socialist policies. Even if the corporations successfully ousted Allende, it seemed certain that someone just as progressive would come along to take his place.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1972 an explosive expos\u00e9 revealed documents showing that <strong>the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) had conspired with the CIA and the US State Department to stop Allende from taking power<\/strong>\u2014a plot that clearly failed, as Allende had taken office and still held it at the time of the expos\u00e9. Nonetheless, the Democratic-controlled Senate launched an investigation, and in 1973 released a damning report showing that ITT\u2019s corporate interests had had a direct and substantial impact on US foreign policy toward Chile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, even supported by the highest powers in the US, the University of Chicago was unable to overthrow developmentalism in Chile. Clearly, the free market capitalists would need more extreme tactics to bring about the regime changes they dreamed of.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the terrible repercussions, Chile was the beginning\u2014the Chicago School\u2019s first major victory against developmentalism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/keynesian-economic-theory\/\">Keynesian economics<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Waging War on Developmentalism in South America<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Chilean plan would later be implemented in many other South American countries. <\/strong>In every case, it would be pushed through by a combination of government force and corporate wealth, and it would take place during some sort of national crisis. Eventually, every country that had once been a model of developmentalism\u2014Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina\u2014would be under the control of a military junta with US backing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of these, Argentina\u2019s implementation of Chicago economics may have been the most brutal and horrific. The Argentine generals who ousted Isabel Per\u00f3n turned to Pinochet for advice on their next steps. They didn\u2019t privatize everything quite as quickly as Pinochet had\u2014for instance, the oil reserves and social security remained under government control, at least at first. Otherwise, though, the methods were much the same, as were the results: runaway inflation, soaring unemployment, starvation, and disease.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, their methods of keeping order were a bit different. While Pinochet\u2019s public massacres were extremely effective at keeping the population in line, they were a public relations nightmare. Since the entire point of Chicago economics was to trade with wealthy outsiders, it was counterproductive to have such a horrific reputation that other countries refused to trade with you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the Argentine generals settled on disappearances as their preferred means of eliminating opposition. Rather than publicly slaughtering people who spoke out against them, they\u2019d simply kidnap those people. Sometimes they did so in secret, spreading the terrifying knowledge that the state could simply whisk anyone away at any time, with no warning. Other times they arrested people very publicly as a show of force. It\u2019s estimated that some 30,000 Argentine citizens were taken during these years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not as dramatic as Pinochet\u2019s methods, they were equally effective. Though everyone knew what was happening, they were too afraid to speak out\u2014indeed, most would pretend that nothing was wrong. 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