Preconditions and propositions for ‘Another development’

The author has asserted in earlier papers that the broad pronouncements made by international organizations —suggesting what must be done without mentioning who is to do it how and when—, the dissemination of ‘practical’ techniques and the execution of ‘pilot projects’ have been of very little use in orienting the Latin American countries, because they are too general or too piecemeal, because they are ill adapted to the realities of the technical and economic situation, because they are not politically viable, etc. To avoid such mistakes he does not put forward his proposals as universal panaceas, but as criteria, ideas or guidelines relating to some of the vital issues with which Latin America’s national societies will have to cope, if, as may plausibly be supposed, their future scenario turns out to be full of complex mutations.