Liberals see human rights not only under the aspect of political rights and pluralism but also under the aspect of specific social rights. We cannot accept that human rights, political dignity, both personal and national, should be estimated by the size of the gross national product or by the readiness to act as mercenaries for the East or as bases for the West. Liberalism can become the basis of free regimes in the developing countries. The future of liberalism in the industrialized parts of the world also depends on the possibility of extending its values to the developing countries in all their variety. 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.