Quote 33 from "The Other Path"
In The Other Path DeSoto comes down hard on the enablers of what passes for policy in most countries:
We are thus faced with a strange paradox: most traditional left-wingers and right-wingers believe that what we have in Peru today is a liberal status quo. On this assumption, mercantilist business owners turn to Western governments and their allies in the foreign private sector for help in preserving a system which allegedly reflects that existing in the West. The left wing, for its part, asks their ideological allies abroad for help in abolishing a liberal system which they claim has failed and is therefore unworkable. Both are mistaken: Peru is not a liberal society. It is a mercantilist society. [pg 242]
