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From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Subject: M-I: Adolfo's analysis of Peru
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:15:52 -0500 ()


     I did not comment on it before, and I tend to shy 
away from it because I, like Doug Henwood, know that 
there is a lot that I do not know about Peru.  But in 
rereading the stuff Louis P. reposted from 
Adolfo about Peru something struck me.  The Velasco 
"reform" appears to have had a very similar effect on 
the peasantry as did the Stalin "reform" although the 
latter included collectivization.  Thus, the state 
extracted a high surplus from the peasantry and 
impoverished them for the benefit of urban groups.  It 
would seem that this kind of a policy of Velasco's 
should be right up the alley of someone who admires a 
leader whose agricultural policies led to a massive 
famine killing millions of people.  Hmm.
Barkley Rosser

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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu




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