This set of characteristics allowed one to define relations between the two according to the model of centre and periphery And a number of conclusions followed from this: that the periphery should not specialize as a raw materials producer but develop forms of imp industry, even if this meant appealing to foreign capital: that attempts should be made to build a regional economic grouping; and that the State should play a role in the prevention of inequalities, especially by carrying out land reform and ensuring a better distribution of investment. Innocuous though they may seem, these proposals triggered a twofold reaction. The Right could not tolerate the "politicization' of economics, the attacks on free trade, or the redefinition of the role of the State all of which smacked of a kind of covert socialism But the Left was just as severe in its criticism, arguing that CEPAL was interested only in capital accumulation and not in the class relations