Latin American Nationalism and the United States

In Latin America three main currents of nationalism exist. One of these, middle class, fits well the excellent definition suggested by Professor Paul Shoup, displaying a fundamental attachment to the values in a country's national culture and history; a need for a considerable degree of independence with priority given to one's own immediate national interest; and, finally, nationalistic emphasis upon industrialization as a means of progress. The second and third currents of nationalism are fraudulent in character, that is, nationalistic feelings are manipulated by Communists to serve the purposes of Russian or Chinese Communist foreign policy, and a similar manipulation by members of the privileged elite to protect their monopoly of political and economic power sometimes may be found

Communism · Development economics · Economic history · Economic nationalism · Economics · Elite · Epistemology · Feeling · Foreign policy · Industrialisation · Latin Americans · Market economy · Monopoly · National interest · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Philosophy

• Communism, Nationalism and the Growth of the Communist Community of Nations After World War II

  Open Access•Paul Shoup•American Political Science Review•1962

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