Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:03:46 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Subject: HAB: That dratted lifeworld


Never mind about colonization of the lifeworld -- let's go
directly for its extermination!  		Steve


The text below is taken from an October 2000 brochure from
Praeger Publishers on _Subsistence and Economic Development_ by
Ronald E. Seavoy, "a Professor in the Department of Business
Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana
University, Bloomington.  In addition, Professor Seavoy is a
consulting exploration geologist with extensive experience in
the developing world."

Here's what the blurb says:

"In this penetrating study of a problem of global importance,
Seavoy insists that development economics is a failed discipline
because it does not recognize the revolutionary difference
between subsistence and commercial social values.  Seavoy
demonstrates that commercial labor norms are essential for
producing assured food surpluses in all crop years and that an
assured food surplus is essential for sustaining the development
process.  The commercialization of food production is a
political process, as in the term political economy.  **If
peasants have a choice, Seavoy shows through historical case
studies, they will not voluntarily adopt commercial labor norms.  
Central governments must overcome peasant resistance to
performing commercial labor norms by various forms of coercion,
including what has historically been most effective:  depriving
peasants of control of land use by foreclosure and eviction for
excessive subsistence debts.**  Coercion is most effective when
it is linked to money rewards for peasants who voluntarily
transform themselves into yeoman cultivators or farmers."  
[Emphasis supplied]

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| Stephen Chilton, Associate Professor, Dept of Pol Science 
|    Univ of Minnesota-Duluth / Duluth, MN 55812-2496 / USA 
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|  ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for
|  ourselves.
|       - Thomas Carlyle (courtesy of Roger Fossum)
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