Thomas:
Excellent quotes: I enjoyed reading them. I have often found in my reading
that the roots of many current things had their origins in that time period
of 1866 to 1900. There were many interesting and intelligent writers and
activists. In fact, I believe that is where the Horiatio Algers myth came
from that started as a story and finally became an American archtype.
Thanks Chris,
Thomas Lunde
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: FW: The Ecology of Eden
>Date: Wed, Jun 16, 1999, 11:21 PM
>
> Thomas Lunde quoted:
>> Sooner or later, you run out of room. [...] In
>> parts of the world where peoples were confined by geographical barriers or
>> by the pressure of other peoples, it was reached some time ago.
>
> An illustration of this is the following text (from a Canadian) on how
> U$ imperialism had to sweep around the Globe after the "civilisation"
> had reached the West coast: Globalisation aka opening the world's markets
> for U$ products after the cancer ran out of room on the own continent.
> (Not that the EU imperialists were any better some centuries before..)
>
> Greetings,
> Chris
>
>
>
> "The [Kosovo] war is the culmination of a century's determined
> foreign/economic policy by the U.S. Before 1890, surplus
> industrial production could always be sold in the
> territories and the emerging states of the union as the tide
> of immigration swept west, ethnically cleansing the
> indigenes that got in the way. After 1890 the problem of
> surplus production became rapidly acute, crystallizing in
> the 'Open Door Notes' of 1899 and 1890.
>
> 'American factories are making more than the American
> people can use; American soil is producing more than they
> can consume. Fate has written our policy for us; thwe trade
> of the world must and will be ours.' -- Albert J. Beveridge,
> April 1897.
>
> In brief, the 'open door' means that U.S. citizens, and
> more importantly U.S. corporations, are free to go anywhere
> in the world they please, take anything they like, and leave
> without paying for it. Of course, this is wrapped up in
> hypocrisy, as:
>
> 'We want a reciprocity that will give us foreign markets
> for our surplus products, and in turn will open our markets
> to foreigners for those products [read raw materials] which they produce and
> which we do not.' -- William McKinley, January 1895."
>
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