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Joaquín Bustelo wrote: > > > What it's really about is denying that the United States, Europe and > Japan are filthy rich because they stole from the nations of Asia, > Africa and Latin America and are still doing so today. > No. Because the capitalists of these imperialist nations were filthy rich from the exploitation of their own working calsses they were _also_ able to steal from the rest of the world. There are complications, but this rather than moralistic bullshit is where the analysis has to start. Imperialism (and/or the national policies so named) has NEVER aided the wroking classes of the imperialist nations. For the last 40 years in particular U.S. "imperialism" has been the main source of the steady deterioration of the living standartds of the U.S. ruling class, as their jobs are bransfrerred to cheap-labor nations, and that competition used to bully workers into accepting lower wages and worse working conditions at home. Carrol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
