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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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Karl Marx wrote:
>> "Under private property ... Each tries to establish
>> over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find
>> satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in
>> the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an
>> extension of the realm of the alien powers to which
>> man is subjected, and every new product represents a
>> new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual
>> plundering."
Mario replied:
> False. Under private property rights, people are FREE
> to buy or sell or keep their property or any other
> products as they wish, without interference or
> coercion by an oppressive government.
Mario,
Sadly, you are nowhere near reality.
Maybe you have not understood that in Goa, the opposition BJP (forget
the Govt) is interfering with the freedom to buy and sell agricultural produce.
The Govt of Goa has taken this concept a step further and decided that a Goan
cannot sell his property to foreigners i.e. those who are currently willing to
pay the most for Goan property.
Secondly, the current financial crises in the US was caused by financial
institutions giving people who would never qualify, the money to buy property.
These people, now with unaffordable mortgages, find themselves in the
position where they cannot sell their property as their equity in the property
has evaporated. The financial institutions and US govt are now
imposing Marx's "extension of the realm of the alien powers" to regulate the
number of bankruptcies in the financial institutions. Sadly, the family that
was coerced to buy the property suddenly find themselves unable to keep their
family home.
Returning to the fisherman in Goa, whether or not he is aware of it, the
US financial/housing crises affects what price he can get for his seafood. The
Britishers and all others with a strong currency come over to Goa and pay what
they feel like for seafood. The people who earn in US dollars suddenly
find seafood beyond their affordability. The people who are worst hit are those
who have contracts to sell seafood in US dollars.
There is a lot of money to be made if one understands basic Marxism. Those that
don't are the very people that recently bought property at high
values. Finally, I hope your recent, highly publicized, non-Monopoly, real
estate ventures are not located in the US rust belt.
Mervyn3.0
"You know, when you give a man more money in his pocket -- in this case, a
woman more money in her pocket to expand a business, it -- they build new
buildings. And when somebody builds a new building somebody has got to come and
build the building. And when the building expanded it prevented additional
opportunities for people to work."
--George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007--
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