To give an idea. Without industrialization, just with the free trade economy of raw materials OK. If you combine the gross domestic product of all Hispanic America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego as a block, we make the 5th economy in the world. No industrialization, no added value of finished products. Just raw free trade charlatanry of our precious resources.
I was thinking… what is the fastest way to industrialize this puppy? What examples in recent modern history are out there that we can draw upon? The one that caught my attention was Japan, simply because of the bad circumstances that they were in. Japan was dirt poor, couldn’t do much, trade agreements were signed with Britain and the US. Many people don’t know this, all the companies in Japan were created by the state. After those companies started functioning, they were given to the managers. This created a bourgeois class, a samurai bourgeois class, created by the state. Is like they became socialist and then capitalists that’s what the Japanese did. The industrialization of Japan did not arise by the magic of free trade.
People confuse industrialization with capitalism like if they are the same thing, they have that idea between the eyebrows. Industrialism is a mode of production, and capitalism is a mode of administration, they are two different things. Not confusing the two might acelerate industrialization and that includes the United States who also got burned by free trade.
This is the fastest way, I could find to industrialize a country. There are many other factors like the technological education to work, and maintain those industries, infrastructure, protective tariffs which President Trump is doing.
I disagree with the idea of “the Protestant work ethic” being the reason on why people become rich and prosperous. That’s a way to low blow Roman Catholics and is not true. The richest regions in Germany were Catholic, and were the first ones to industrialize. In Hispanic America by the year 1800, the vice royalty of New Spain was richer than Great Britain, same with the vice royalty of Peru. The Hispanic world had it’s own way of thinking about the economy. We used the real de ocho, debt free money, which was the reserve currency of the world for three centuries. The American revolution was financed with the real de ocho, which by the way America never paid back. The British couldn’t do trade with the Chinese without our currency.
We used the School of Salamanca for the economy. One of the most outstanding figures of the School of Salamanca was a Jesuit by the name of Francisco Suarez. The main ones are Dominicans, Melchor Cano, Domingo Soto, Domingo Bañez, etc. All the theologians from the Council of Trent, Bartolomé de Carranza, Francisco de Vitoria. That is our way of doing economics. Little taxes, everything produced in house, added value in the production chain. Our prosperity always was re-circulated and re-circulated, it was designed to work that way. Hence let’s spread free trade, Freemasonry, and revolutionary ideas to these Hispanics.
The School of Salamanca also was kind of visionary. They pointed out that this quasi left vs right phenomena that was emerging in the Protestant countries, that those were revolutionary ideologies. Concoctions of the bourgeois and masonic class as they called it.
