By the time of the LSF colloquium, earlier critiques of the complicity of wealthy nations in postcolonial poverty were being usurped by new concerns with human rights abuses in the post-colony. LSF argued that the Asian 'miracle' economies of South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan had been condemned for failing to conform to Third Worldist tenets, while disastrous programmes – in Mao's China, Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam, Julius Nyerere's Tanzania, Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Fidel Castro's Cuba, and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas – had been presented as models. In stark contrast to the arguments of Fanon and Sartre, this new anti-totalitarian human rights organisation focused on left-wing 'totalitarian' regimes, largely ignoring the lamentable human rights records of both the right-wing authoritarian regimes then terrorising much of Latin America and those dictatorial Asian regimes it celebrated.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 393