Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 13:23:25 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Actually Existing Stalinism


At 1:19 AM +0800 2/17/97, kjkhoo-AT-pop.jaring.my wrote:

>China's relative success in feeding its population over the forty-odd years
>from 1948 with India's relative lack of success over the same period, then
>one might have some better indication of human cost.

To counter the claims of Vandana Shiva and other ecofeminists, I've been
reading some of the literature on pre-colonial class and gender relations
in India, which, needless to say, paints a fairly ugly picture. In one, in
the Economic & Political Weekly I think, I read the claim that Chinese
agriculture has "always" been more productive than Indian. Is this true? If
so, why?


Doug

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