As argued in previous chapters, poor development in the Arab world primarily follows from the politics of imperialist aggression and subordinately from the interface between ‘free market’ policies and their antidevelopmental outcomes. The stranglehold of free-market ideology is evidenced in the fact that despite the world being mired in a global crisis in which one child under 5 perishes from hunger every five seconds, thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath, and one billion people are permanently and severely malnourished (Ziegler 2011), few scholars any longer voice alternative policies such as land and income redistribution, nationalisation and self-reliance. It is probably unprecedented in history that so many people unconsciously share the same belief in the one idea, which is the market dogma. The depth of the schism on the Left is so deep such that even the socialist ‘brand names’ of the North, Trotskyism and anarchism, which exhibit a puny presence in the South, still mull the issue of why the revolution did not arrive in Weimar Germany when the devastation in the colonies appeared trivial. Where the geographic limits of structural concepts end, the ideological stance masked by social science becomes visible. The presence of a Left organised around the straitjacket of bourgeois democracy, as opposed to the necessity of violent struggle, is all on its own an indication of how detached socialist ideology has become from the working class.