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http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/the-gates-foundation-in-india-charity-versus-liberation/ This is quite a complicated one. On the one hand, I think the Gates really do want to end malaria and poverty and so on and, in the absence of an alternative to capitalism, their capitalist charitable work is inevitable. On the other hand, what they're doing in India can't be disentangled from imperialism and will have the result of strengthening its hold over the country and helping deepen capitalist penetration into more areas of the country. And, of course, there is actually a substantial revolutionary movement in India, in the form of a reborn/reconsolidated huge current which identifies as Maoist, although in my view its politics are quite different from those people in the past have often associated with Maoism. Plus there is something obscene about the Gates Foundation headquarters. It is like a liberal, green, politically-correct version of the Versailles palace of Louis XVI. Phil ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
