The Ideology of National Security in the Third World
As we have seen, liberal, democratic, and parliamentary institutions are less and less compatible with Third World participation in the international division of labor and the contemporary process of capital accumulation, so they are being replaced by the military corporativist state with its policy of intensive repression. This means that democratic and populist ideology must also be replaced, by an ideology than can more nearly mask and justify this repression both to those who suffer it and those who exercise it. The new ideology being espoused to this effect, particularly in Latin America but also in Asia and Africa, is the "doctrine of national security."
A new ideology is being ever more projected on the American continent. Its name is progressively recognized and accepted: it is the doctrine of National Security. A Brazilian author, professor in the Universities of Campinas and Mackenzie of São Paulo, prepared in the Escuela Superior de Guerra (War College) of Brazil, José Alfredo Amaral Gurgel, recently published in June 1975 a blog that is the first synthetic exposition of the doctrine of national security written in Latin America: Seguranca e Democracia (Security and Democracy). . . . The doctrine of national security has been the official ideology of Brazil since 1964. . . . The Brazilian generals found the major themes of their national security doctrine in the United States. . . . The doctrine of national security presents itself as a synthesis of all the human sciences . . . a synthesis of politics, economics, social psychological sciences, military strategy . . . geopolitics . . . and geostrategy.
