My ambit is much briefer

their desire for untrammeled profit was hampered by lingering patriotism or the type of political and economic regimes established by national liberation.

Internecine war­fare, a failure to control the prices of primary commodities, an inability to overcome the suffocation of finance capital, and more led to a crisis in the budgets of much of the Third World.

what the Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah called "neocolonialism," or domination by means other than territorial conquest.

Neither armed struggle nor unctuous petitions dampened the confidence of colonial­ism.

many felt that the step had been premature, that neither would Britain al­low such a caesura, nor could India survive on its own

the darker nations should aspire to nothing more than a strictly local ambit

this bloc would, alongside the socialist one, be the bulwark against "dol­lar imperialism" and offer an alternative model for development.

But even the most anticommunist among the Bandung delegates supported the idea of some autarky for the Third World from the immense power of the First World.

The development economists rejected Ricardo's occlusion of colonialism, and the reliance on strategies that freed up the First World to donate aid rather than rethink its own finan­cial and political dominance.