Liberalism in the developing countries offers a third way which rejects both authoritarian regimes of dictatorship or theocratic reaction and communist totalitarianism. Liberalism favors and promotes a simultaneous development in economics, culture and politics. Marxism instead subordinates political freedom to economic progress which ultimately cannot be achieved even on its own premises. Equally the dogmatic partisans of a totally capitalist system are ready to subordinate to this unrealistic goal, the achievement of economic and social progress. Liberals do not accept the views of those who believe that if a developing country joins the non-aligned, if its government steers a rather nationalist economic course, if it introduces strict economic planning or financial control, it means that such a country has broken or means to break with the liberal democracies.
Liberals consider the right of people to their own cultural identity as of fundamental importance.
Liberals understand and support the claim of many developing countries to abide by their cultures even at the price of slower economic development. Liberals see the world as an indivisible unit, in which no part can live in real and lasting peace and prosperity while so many human beings suffer from poverty and even destitution. The plight of the millions of destitute people in the developing countries must be of direct concern to every country in the industrialized world. Revolutions have been caused within one society by extreme disparities in income and property and thereby in human, social and political status. It is a scandal which threatens us with massive conflicts that two-thirds of mankind live on or below the poverty line, whilst good agricultural land and forest are destroyed year by year without the world community taking any effective steps to stop it.