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24During 1959-60, the U.S. State Department under It is no metaphor or exaggeration to insist that theRockefi:ller pressure, pushed the Belgian government to economic "development" program of Brazil today is 'accelerate Congo independence. (Rockefeller interests directly based on that of the Nazi slave-labor system!had bought up major holdings through Belgium, pri- During my late 1971 public debate with one of themarily, in Rhodesia, Katanga province of the Congo, leading international supporters of the Brazilian model,and other parts of,the Belgian colony. Elimination of Keynesian economist Abba Lerner, Lerner concededBelgian administration was desired by U.S. interests to that the Brazilian "development" model was a copy of/i_ermit acceleration of the investment program -- which Schacht's Nazi program.has since occurred.)After Castro's "second revolution," The economic principle involved is what the CIA'sU.S. policy toward Lumumba changed; Lumumba was Brazilian stooges term "recycling" of labor. This isnot to be permitted to become a "second Castro." based on the fact that a human being contains a certainFrom approximately 1961 onwards, the U.S. generally amount of stored.up potential value in his "muscle and(if not entirely) abandoned further efforts to carry out bones." In the form this principle was applied by Kruppthe "Development Decade" Program through "social- and I.G. Farben at Auschwitz and elsewhere, if onedemocratic and liberal" forces. The political forces to works a person at a rate of consumption of over 3,000carry out the program, under new U.S. policy, would be calories per day, and feeds the worker with only 1,000-the military. The Peruvian Junta. is the model of the sort 1,500 calories a day, two things happen. Firstly, theof military regime the U.S. began to work for during the difference between work-output and consumption isearly 1960's. To replace the traditional "latifundist" additional income for the capitalist; the same differencestrata of "colonels," the U.S. through the CIA (prinei- is the gradual depletion of the body of the slave.pally) began indoctrinating a youger generation of Latin If Auschwitz had fed its inmates from miserableAmerican officers (captain_, majors) in the new eco- family garden plots within the camp itself, we could saynomic reform programs of "Development DecadC' that much of Brazil today is a gigantic Auschwitz. Muchreform. The CIA training center in Panama is typical of of the population scratches a miserable existence fromthe regional programs put into effect. The present the soil and other petty means, which barely keeps itPeruvian junta regime was the first new crop of CIA alive. The Brazilian employers (through the aid of thetrainees to rise to power to carry out the new program, government) herd masses of these miserable lumpens toThe first important application of the new post-1961 replace workers already employed. The lumpens areprogram occurred from 1964 onwards in Brazil, through forced to work much harder than the workers theya CIA-directed military overthrow of the discredited replace, and they are paid much less. Meanwhile, theliberal regime. The differences between the military of workers they replace become lumpens. When one batchsemi-developed Brazil and more backward Latin Ameri- of lumpens is worn out through high intensity of !abor,j itcan countries is obvious; the U.S. had in Brazil a is replaced by another batch of lumpens. When the orimilitaryapparatus more advanced in its qualifications ginal employees are in desperate enough condition, theythan in, for example, Peru. replace some of the lumpens who have replaced them:From 1961 through 1968 (approximately), U.S. policy capitalist accumulation through systematic genocide offocused on preparatory efforts to integrate "Develop- classes.ment Decade" infrastructural development and some Meanwhile_ the population is "weeded out," throughprivate direct investment coexisting with traditional disease, etc., so that all Brazil is beginning to resemble aforms of imperialist exploitation (primary commodities, death-camp system.massive foreign debt-service). This shifted during the It is not accidental that about the same time the1967-68 period, as a result of both the wave of 1964-66 Brazilian model of "development" was adopted as U.S.recessions in Western Europe and Japan, and the 1967- policy (for the entire semi-colonial region), John D.68 wave oft international monetary crises (the British Rockefeller III and others associated with him advancedCrisis of Nov. 1967 and the following two major dollar what is called the "Zero Population Growth" "policy.crises of February and March, 1968). The "Development This pol!cy was developed principally as'a justificationDecade" program implementation was modified from for systematic depopulation in the region south of theabout 1968 onwards, to imitate the main principles of Tropic of Cancer.Nazi economics minister Hjalmar H. Schacht (1933-36) Brazil is already under this policy. Peru, under theand ultimately the subsequent economic methods used junta, has developed to the point that a similar recyclingby the, Nazis during the 1943-45 period. The program policy is nowbeginning to be introduced. If Allende isput into effect in Brazil over the past five years is the not overthrown by the left and if the Peronista regime inmodel for this new drive to turn all Latin America into a Argentina successfully plans out its imitations of "demo-, gigantic Auschwitz. ¢ratie industrial management" refor_ms, all Latin