[Marxism] Trump Campaign Sides With Netanyahu: Palestinians Seek 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Jews

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Trump Campaign Sides With Netanyahu: Palestinians Seek 'Ethnic 
Cleansing' of Jews

http://world.einnews.com/article/344250121/jFH6WNcRw7euJTWG

Also from article, Trump's "anti-interventionism" explained:

“Our candidate, Donald Trump, has stated on more than one occasion that 
when it comes to building in the Land of Israel - whether it is homes, 
businesses or schools - that is a decision for the Israeli people alone 
and it is not something the U.S. government needs to interfere in”


And Trump's previous comments on "neutrality" explained:

Zell told Haaretz. “Trump believes it is for the Israelis and 
Palestinians to work out among themselves, and that it’s not appropriate 
for the United States to weigh in on the dispute in a manner that 
clearly favors one side - the Palestinian side.” 


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[Marxism] The British Economy Depended on the Caribbean

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[Marxism] "How the NFL sells (and profits from) the inextricable link between football and war"

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Re: [Marxism] What an embarrassing article from a Marxmail subscriber

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I have kept silent on the whole sad Syrian saga.  The suffering of the
people is too much to contemplate. My high hopes for the Arab Spring have
been drowned in blood by the Imperialists and their lackeys.  But to see
Putin constructed as an historically progressive figure is just a bridge
too far.  What have we come to? Can't we spot evil any more?

comradely

Gary

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> We should also seriously interrogate the notion of politicians and look to
> Marx himself for inspiration when dealing with Assad and Putin. He knew
> exactly what Abraham Lincoln was and was not as a white former railroad
> lawyer and son-in-law of a slave-owning family. Yet his journalism for
> Horace Greeley and letters to the president would make you think that the
> Great Emancipator was a premonition of Lenin. That is not because he was
> blind to Lincoln’s many massive flaws. Instead it was because he saw the
> Union Army as an engine of historical progress despite the flaws. Does
> Vladimir Putin have similar flaws? Yes, many, but his challenge to NATO and
> the imperial project is objectively a progressive goal and effort despite
> the flawed engine that delivers it.
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[Marxism] Does Donald #Trump's secret plan to defeat #ISIS involve using nukes?

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Does Donald #Trump's secret plan to defeat #ISIS involve using nukes?


http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/09/does-donald-trumps-secret-plan-to.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: When Justice isn’t Just | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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First Run Features released the 42-minute documentary When Justice Isn’t 
Just to iTunes on August 30 and follows up with a DVD beginning 
tomorrow, September 13, 2016. The film, directed by Oscar-nominated and 
NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, addresses the concept and reality 
of justice in the United States, particularly in regard to racial 
disparities in the American criminal justice system. It will be very 
useful for classroom discussions of why Black Lives Matter emerged, why 
Colin Kaepernick is refusing to stand for the national anthem, etc.	


full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/09/12/when-justice-isnt-just/
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[Marxism] Chile in ISR

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With yesterday having been the anniversary of the "other" 9/11 I figured
(after waiting a day out of respect for the martyred) that I'd share a
resource not available last year.
To wit, the newly-uploaded volumes of the International Socialist Review,
inaccessible because of copyright but now on the publisher's own site.
Go to:
http://66.114.139.138/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=NI_Index_Public&-loadframes
and type "Chile" in keywords. Among the articles that come up are those
below, all of which explain the limitations of the Allende government and
how that weakened the defense of the country against imperialism.
http://www.themilitant.com/NI/ISR72/ISR72_02.PDF#page=9=FitV,35
http://www.themilitant.com/NI/ISR73/ISR73_10.PDF#page=6=FitV,35
http://www.themilitant.com/NI/ISR73/ISR73_10.PDF#page=4=FitV,35
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[Marxism] How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

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NY Times, Sept. 12 2016
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link 
between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit 
instead, newly released historical documents show.


The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a 
researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published 
Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research 
into the role of nutrition and heart disease — including many of today’s 
dietary recommendations — may have been largely shaped by the sugar 
industry.


“They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” said 
Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the 
new JAMA paper.


The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research 
Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard 
scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish 
a 1967 review of sugar, fat and heart research. The studies used in the 
review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was 
published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized 
the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role 
of saturated fat.


The Harvard scientists and the sugar executives with whom they 
collaborated are no longer alive. One of the scientists who was paid by 
the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head 
of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 
1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government’s dietary 
guidelines. Another scientist was Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of 
Harvard’s nutrition department.


In a statement responding to the JAMA report, the Sugar Association said 
that the 1967 review was published at a time when medical journals 
didn’t typically require researchers to disclose funding sources or 
potential financial conflicts of interest. The New England Journal of 
Medicine did not begin to require financial disclosures until 1984.


The industry “should have exercised greater transparency in all of its 
research activities,” the Sugar Association statement said. Even so, it 
defended industry-funded research as playing an important and 
informative role in scientific debate. It said that several decades of 
research had concluded that sugar “does not have a unique role in heart 
disease.”


The association also questioned the motives behind the new paper.

“Most concerning is the growing use of headline-baiting articles to 
trump quality scientific research,” the organization said. “We’re 
disappointed to see a journal of JAMA’s stature being drawn into this 
trend.”


But even though the influence-peddling revealed in the documents dates 
back nearly 50 years, the revelations are important because the debate 
about the relative harms of sugar and saturated fat continues today, Dr. 
Glantz said. For many decades health authorities encouraged Americans to 
improve their health by reducing their fat intake, which led many people 
to consume low-fat, high-sugar foods that some experts now blame for 
fueling the obesity crisis.


“It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did because review papers, 
especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend 
to shape the overall scientific discussion,” he said.


Dr. Hegsted used his research to influence the government’s dietary 
recommendations, which emphasized saturated fat as a driver of heart 
disease while largely characterizing sugar as empty calories linked to 
tooth decay. Today, the saturated fat warnings remain a cornerstone of 
the government’s dietary guidelines, though in recent years the American 
Heart Association, the World Health Organization and other health 
authorities have also begun to warn that too much added sugar could 
increase cardiovascular disease risk.


Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health 
at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper 
that said the documents provided “compelling evidence” that the sugar 
industry initiated research “expressly to exonerate sugar as a major 
risk factor for coronary heart disease.”


“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that 
are this blatant. The amount of money they were paid to do this is 
staggering.”


Dr. Nestle noted that efforts by the food industry to shape nutrition 
science continue today.


Last year, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola, the 
world’s largest producer of 

[Marxism] Fwd: The Train has Departed from Daraa: A Review of Ossama Mohammed's "Silvered Water: Syria Self-Portrait"

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[Marxism] Fwd: From 280 Tribes, a Protest on the Plains - The New York Times

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This should be read on the NY Times website since the photos are essential.

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[Marxism] After Centuries of Loss, Seeds of Hope for Argentina’s Indigenous People

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NY Times, Sept. 12 2016
After Centuries of Loss, Seeds of Hope for Argentina’s Indigenous People
By JONATHAN GILBERT

VICTORICA, Argentina — Each year on the night of June 23, they gather at 
the sacred outpost on the brown flatlands to celebrate New Year’s on a 
pre-Columbian calendar. Wearing ponchos and a type of jewelry called 
tupu, they make offerings of food, feast on barbecued ribs and tell 
stories. In the morning, they march around a ceremonial wooden stake and 
a fire fueled through the night to honor the land.


For the indigenous Ranquel (pronounced Ran-KEL), the scene is charged 
with many emotions, and offers a glimpse of their resurgence amid a long 
struggle for recognition after centuries of hardship and loss.


Similar struggles, of course, have unfolded across both South and North 
America, but the sense of being excluded from the national conversation 
has been particularly acute for the indigenous peoples of Argentina.


While policy makers in Buenos Aires and the provinces have made 
reconciliation efforts, indigenous leaders were baffled when Mauricio 
Macri, after winning the presidential election last year, singled out 
the achievements of influential European immigrants in his victory 
speech. (He later sought to calm the waters by meeting with indigenous 
representatives.)


“No Argentine president has truly tried to repair the damage done to 
indigenous people,” said Pedro Coria, 51, a trade unionist and the 
president of the Ranquel Chieftains Council in Santa Rosa, the capital 
of La Pampa Province.


That damage began after the Spanish conquest, with forced labor in mines 
far from ancestral homelands and the colonial masters’ use of people as 
currency in business deals. The native tribes fought back in the 19th 
century with several incursions. But in the late 1870s, Julio Argentino 
Roca, a general and soon to be president, led a campaign called the 
Conquest of the Desert, which seized the pampas and northern Patagonia 
from them.


General Roca, long considered a hero who opened the wilderness to poor 
European immigrants and united an unruly nation, has more recently been 
labeled a genocidal murderer by some historians and activists. That has 
led to campaigns to rename boulevards dedicated to him, tear down his 
statues and even remove images of him and his conquest from the 100-peso 
note.


Yet a consensus on the past treatment of indigenous people, and on 
responding to their grievances now, has proved elusive. The influential 
and conservative newspaper La Nación, in a lengthy editorial, recently 
leapt to General Roca’s defense.


Indigenous movements in other parts of the region have seen high-profile 
triumphs. Bolivia has had an indigenous president, Evo Morales, for more 
than a decade. In Paraguay, an indigenous language on equal footing with 
Spanish continues to thrive. Ecuador’s government incorporated 
indigenous concepts in the Constitution in 2008.


In Argentina, however, the commemorations of the nation’s bicentennial 
in July chafed, seeming to confirm suspicions among native peoples that 
their culture and history were being ignored.


In a statement, some groups asked rhetorically, “What do we have to 
celebrate?”


But as debates about the Qom and Wichí people in the north of Argentina 
often hinge on child malnutrition, and as the Mapuche people in 
Patagonia battle the encroaching shale oil industry, Ranquel communities 
have emerged as patient champions of indigenous rights.


The communities have secured a string of victories, including settling 
land disputes and phonetically transcribing textbooks to preserve their 
language, which was unwritten. More broadly, they have reversed a 
tradition among provincial Argentines of concealing their Ranquel 
ancestry. An indigenous bloodline no longer elicits shame; rather, it is 
esteemed.


“They have toiled away largely unnoticed,” said Graciana Pérez Zavala, a 
historian at the National University of Río Cuarto who has written 
widely on the Ranquel.


“They’re ripping apart the notion that indigenous people were 
exterminated during the Conquest of the Desert,” she added. “They are 
showing that they are alive.”


A short distance from Victorica, a farming town of about 6,000 enveloped 
by forests of caldén trees, the Ranquel can point to perhaps their 
proudest achievement — the return of a two-hectare site (about five 
acres) that was part of their largest settlement, Leuvucó, before 
General Roca reneged on peace treaties and sent soldiers rampaging 
across the central plains.


They recovered the barren stretch of land in 2001 after putting aside 
clan rivalries and 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jill Stein responds to Russian environmentalists - Jill Stein 2016

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Congrats Clay - you've destroyed your political credibility with me. I will
no longer bother to read your posts.

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> [White supremacy is reflected in her attitude towards revolutions in
> Libya.Syria and running the Green Party to keep it white, keep it small and
> keep it ineffective, as long as it remains the social organization they
> want.]
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jill Stein responds to Russian environmentalists - Jill Stein 2016

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And here Putin [ the modern Lincoln]  dinner buddy Jill Stein who recasts
herself as MLK [Jr.]. Curious that those promoting white supremacy choice
great fighters against white supremacy to claim as their historical
parallels.

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keep it ineffective, as long as it remains the social organization they
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> My views regarding Russia, and even my specific statements, have been
> grossly misrepresented by certain actors in the media and political
> establishment. There is a growing tendency in American politics to label
> critics of the established order as agents of Russia working against the
> United States. For example, when Wikileaks exposed massive corruption at
> the highest levels of the Democratic Party, high-ranking Democratic party
> officials and their supporters in the media began attacking Wikileaks as an
> alleged agent of Russia, despite their inability to produce any hard
> evidence to support this claim. This tactic of smearing critics as Russian
> agents is the mirror image of the Putin administration’s tactic of labeling
> Putin critics as agents of the West. It is reminiscent of the shameful
> history of Russia-baiting attacks against political opposition leaders like
> Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: [Marxism] What an embarrassing article from a Marxmail subscriber

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Putin as Lincoln? These people are unbelievable!

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> Marx himself for inspiration when dealing with Assad and Putin. He knew
> exactly what Abraham Lincoln was and was not as a white former railroad
> lawyer and son-in-law of a slave-owning family. Yet his journalism for
> Horace Greeley and letters to the president would make you think that the
> Great Emancipator was a premonition of Lenin. That is not because he was
> blind to Lincoln’s many massive flaws. Instead it was because he saw the
> Union Army as an engine of historical progress despite the flaws. Does
> Vladimir Putin have similar flaws? Yes, many, but his challenge to NATO and
> the imperial project is objectively a progressive goal and effort despite
> the flawed engine that delivers it.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Ahead of Truce, Assad Vows to Retake Syria From 'Terrorists' - ABC News

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Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed on Monday that his government would 
take back land from "terrorists" and rebuild the country in remarks made 
just hours before the start of a cease-fire brokered by the United 
States and Russia.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Uneven and Combined Development: Challenging the Dominant Wisdom - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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However, the use of uneven and combined development in "How the West 
Came to Rule" also requires that we ask some challenging questions of 
ourselves. If we are to dismantle the methodological apparatus of the 
‘dominant wisdom’ that has been such a central feature of the social 
sciences over the course of its modern history, what are we to replace 
it with? This is not to get bogged down into philosophical principles 
and/or formal methods in the belief that they automatically ensure the 
veracity of our analysis. Instead, it is to deepen our enquiry into what 
the terms employed in the text mean and how they support the aim of 
incorporating ‘the international’ into our causal explanations.


full: 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Stalin’s Ghost Won’t Save Us from the Spectre of Fascism: A Response to Prakash Karat | SabrangIndia

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In The Indian Express (September 6, 2016) Prakash Karat, former general 
secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has an opinion piece 
defending the BJP against its characterisation by sections of the Left 
in India as the external face of a fascist movement driven by the RSS 
and its vision of a non-secular, Hindu state. The threat that is 
sweeping through India today is one of authoritarianism, not fascism, he 
argues. Nor are the conditions present for a fascist regime to be 
established, even though a ‘determined effort is being made to reorder 
society and polity on Hindutva lines’. The crux of Karat’s argument is a 
conception of fascism lifted straight from the famous formula adopted by 
the Comintern’s executive committee in December 1933. “Fascism is the 
open, terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinist 
and most imperialist elements of finance capital”.


Why is it that every time mention is made of Prakash Karat powerful 
images of rigor mortis rush through my brain? Is it because the young 
student leader from JNU days always impressed me as the pure type of the 
apparatchik, the social type that flooded the Communist Party of the 
Soviet Union by the late 1920s, swamped it as the emerging base of 
Stalin’s rapid consolidation of power within the party and then in the 
country as a whole?


The apparatchik destroyed Lenin’s party but he couldn’t discard Marxism 
completely. He adapted to Marxism by converting it into a draw full of 
rubber stamps. Incapable of thought, much less of any more creative 
process like actual intellectual engagement, the building of theory, 
unfettered debate, etc., he (for we are dealing overwhelmingly with 
males) opened the draw to look for the right stamp every time some 
phrase or expression triggered a signal.



full: 
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[Marxism] What an embarrassing article from a Marxmail subscriber

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We should also seriously interrogate the notion of politicians and look 
to Marx himself for inspiration when dealing with Assad and Putin. He 
knew exactly what Abraham Lincoln was and was not as a white former 
railroad lawyer and son-in-law of a slave-owning family. Yet his 
journalism for Horace Greeley and letters to the president would make 
you think that the Great Emancipator was a premonition of Lenin. That is 
not because he was blind to Lincoln’s many massive flaws. Instead it was 
because he saw the Union Army as an engine of historical progress 
despite the flaws. Does Vladimir Putin have similar flaws? Yes, many, 
but his challenge to NATO and the imperial project is objectively a 
progressive goal and effort despite the flawed engine that delivers it.


http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/12/the-israel-lobby-the-syrian-war-and-the-meaning-of-empire/
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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: A Buried Coup d’État in the United States - The New Yorker

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A new documentary exposes a seldom acknowledged 1898 massacre, 
perpetrated by a gang of white-supremacist Democrats in North Carolina.


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/a-buried-coup-detat-in-the-united-states
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[Marxism] Fwd: When Will New York City Sink? -- NYMag

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No New Yorker, of course, needs to be reminded of the ocean’s fearsome 
power — not since Hurricane Sandy. But Jacob began trying to sound the 
alarm about the risk more than a decade ago. He sent students into the 
New York subways with barometers to measure their elevation, and 
produced a 2008 report for the MTA, warning that many lines would flood 
with a storm surge of between seven and 13 feet. He urged policymakers 
to “muster the courage to think the almost unthinkable” and install 
flood defenses while considering whether, over the long term, climate 
change might necessitate radical alterations to the transit system, like 
moving back to elevated tracks. In 2011, while working on a government 
panel, Jacob produced a study that mapped how subway tunnels would be 
inundated in the event of a hurricane. The next year, he was proved 
right. After Sandy, Jacob was hailed as a prophet.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Chris Hedges: Fooled Again - Chris Hedges - Truthdig

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The naive hopes of Bernie Sanders’ supporters—to build a grass-roots 
political movement, change the Democratic Party from within and push 
Hillary Clinton to the left—have failed. Clinton, aware that the liberal 
class and the left are not going to mount genuine resistance, is running 
as Mitt Romney in drag. The corporate elites across the political 
spectrum, Republican and Democrat, have gleefully united to anoint her 
president. All that remains of Sanders’ “revolution” is a 501(c)(4) 
designed to raise money, including from wealthy, anonymous donors, to 
ensure that he will be a senator for life. Great historical events 
happen twice, as Karl Marx quipped, first as tragedy and then as farce.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning - Scientific American

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The end of globalisation and the future of capitalism | Michael Roberts Blog

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On 9/12/16 6:40 AM, Gary MacLennan wrote:

Hi Lou

do you recall De Long on the old Spoons list?  He and I clashed once or
twice. Now he's the great white hope of Western Civilization while I
still  dream of the workers' paradise to come

comradely

Gary


Was he on the Marxism list? I knew he was on PEN-L.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The end of globalisation and the future of capitalism | Michael Roberts Blog

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Hi Lou

do you recall De Long on the old Spoons list?  He and I clashed once or
twice. Now he's the great white hope of Western Civilization while I still
dream of the workers' paradise to come

comradely

Gary

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> DeLong echoes Keynes in 1931 by concluding that “short of a nightmare
> scenario like terror-driven nuclear war, you can expect my successors in
> 2075 to look back and relish that, once again, their world is three times
> better off than ours is today.”
>
> This pro-capitalist optimism was also recently promoted by Nobel prize
> winner Angus Deaton.   Deaton is an expert on world poverty, the
> consumption patterns of households and how to measure them.  He emphasises
> that life expectancy globally has risen 50% since 1900 and is still rising.
> The share of people living on less than $1 a day (in inflation-adjusted
> terms) has dropped to 14 percent from 42 percent as recently as 1981. The
> greatest progress against cancer and heart disease has come in the last 20
> to 30 years.  “Things are getting better,” he writes, “and hugely so.”
>
> But Deaton makes it clear that progress in living conditions and quality
> of life is a relatively recent development. And much of this improvement in
> the quality and length of life comes from the application of science and
> knowledge through state spending on education, on sewage, clean water,
> disease prevention and protection, hospitals and better child development.
> These are things that do not come from capitalism but from the common weal.
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