Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:16:18 -0500 From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Little red flags Russell Pearson: >Your concern for the people of Ecuador is pure cant- an armchair politics >of storing up clippings for later use: This is not a matter of "concern". It is a question of political economy. The reason that people in the imperialist nations have a higher standard of living is because of exploitation. Coffee, tea, bananas, oil, sugar, tobacco, cotton, rice, chocolate, rubber, diamonds, gold, silver, etc. have been extracted for generations from underdeveloped countries. These commodities end up in the breadbasket of the imperialist nations. It is exploitation. The only reason you idiots prattle on about the open road is that this your way of saying that you enjoy the status quo. Living Marxism is a right-wing pro-capitalist cult that has taken Marx's panegyric on behalf of the bourgeoisie in the pages of Communist Manifesto as an excuse to defend your own imperialist ruling class. It is British Petroleum that is raping Nigeria and not the other way around. You thought that Ken Saro-Wira had it coming to him, didn't you. The nerve of that Ogoni trouble-maker, to threaten the supply of Russell Pearson's petroleum. Louis Proyect --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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