UN General Assembly
1971

39. In the specific case of Peru we have always been an underdeveloped society of dependent capitalism . Our basic problems were generated within that system and, therefore, could not be solved by maintaining it. From this basic standpoint, we decided upon a participating society in which the power of decision should be with the men and women who constitute the bases of our institutions. A society no longer governed by the individualism of the capitalist system nor by the hypertrophy of an all- controlling State, one whose acts are a reissue of the powers that alienated our traditional society which was already dehumanized and unjust.