ABSTRACT
The dual character of self-reliance-breaking up old relations in order to build new ones-comes out equally clearly in the efforts to counteract fragmentation and marginalization. Thus, with the focus on expressions as "self-confidence," "ability to be self-sufficient," and "fearlessness" and "invulnerability," it is clear that self-reliance as a doctrine is located more in the field of psychopolitics than in the field of economics. Self-reliance is a dynamic movement from the periphery, at all levels—individual, local, national, regional. Self-reliance ultimately means that the society is organized in a way that the masses arrive at self-fulfillment through self-reliance-in participation with others in the same situation. The tremendous dedication to promote human self-reliance and self-realization found at all levels of human society every day should be given much more prominence, lest progress become identified with the making plans and models of progress.
