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A list devoted to the ideas of the one who said, “...the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism … arising from the social conditions of life…”? > On Jul 27, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > On 7/27/17 3:33 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: >> And to see what has happened in China in the generation since Tiananmen >> Square, makes it difficult to deny economic development there. > > Of course there is "economic development". There was "economic development" > in Nicaragua under Somoza. The GDP was rising dramatically as cattle ranches > met the market demand for fast food restaurant supplies. There was economic > development in South Korea under the Chaebol system. The Asian tigers were a > big fucking deal a while back. In Erdogan's first term, there were > expectations that Turkey would "take off". Thomas Friedman has an article at > least every 3 months about the next great thing happening somewhere in the > Third World. > > Like I said, Carl, this is a Marxism list, not an "economic development" list. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
