Just to point out it was Raghu who made those claims, not Carrol, who was arguing the opposite.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2013, at 2:43 PM, raghu wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For over 2 centuries capitalism, in all its phases, has been a continuing >> (and growing) disaster for most of the global population. > > > Is this true? I'd say no. In fact it is exactly wrong. > > The neoliberal ascendancy of the past 3 decades has actually coincided > with the greatest episode of poverty reduction ever in world history > > > The past three decades has seen an increase in world population of more > than two billion. Most of those are impoverished. More people than ever > before live in poverty. Playing with the weasel-word "extreme" or playing > with guesstimated percentages won't work. Neoliberalism already is a > disaster, and (via global warming) has put the human race on the brink of > total catastrophe. > > > > Shane Mage > > "scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities > that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention > to" > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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