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Must move from thing oriented society to person oriented society . Almost half a million people sent to vietnam. Emphasis americans can still change global dynamics of injustice and. Far deeper malady within the american spirit? destruction by reordering our priorities. Theory of change: poverty stricken third world countries could change with help from the west . Blueprint (us model of success): free enterprise, democratic laws and procedures, rationale banking and financial institutions, and accelerated industrialization and urbanization. Geopolitical inventive: embrace capitalism not socialism and communism. Flawed theory of history and flawed theory of change. Dependency theorists thought that nations and national economies don"t exist independent of one another. Critics of top down modernization (escobar and gunder frank) Both understood serious consequences of top down structure of capitalism and how it changed developing countries. But viewed these consequences in distinct ways. Escobar: perpetuation of colonial logics and ways of seeing perpetuated global hierarchies according to white european ideals.

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