way more circumspect in pursuing this trajectory?\
cheers
Bill
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From: "Dave Bedggood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: M-TH: Is NZ a bloated semi-colony?
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 1999, 5:43 AM
Gidday Bill,
Yes NZ earned differential rent on its pastoral
Gidday Bill,
Yes NZ earned differential rent on its pastoral production for much
of its history I agree. But a lot of this dissappeared into the hands
of the financiers, banks etc who had the mortage on the land etc.
i.e. much of it back to the motherland. That part which was retained
by the
Gerry,
As far as I know the Lenin criteria for
imperialism/semi-colony/colony has not changed, much as the post-als
would like us to believe the opposite.
Surplus value pumped out of NZ by finance capital from the 1840's to
the present confirms NZ as NOT imperialist, despite its relatively
