Re: [PEN-L:3152] Aztecs or migration

1999-02-11 Thread Anthony D'Costa
There are all sorts of reasons for migration, not simply the lure of the cities not simply to get away from oppressive rural conditions. Capitalist agriculture is perhaps the most important factor for migration in a typical developing country. Population pressure, access to education, rising inco

[PEN-L:3152] Aztecs

1999-02-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Angela: >we are not in the 17th century, when it is still possible to be a >peasant outside capitalism. we are in the 20th C, where the condition >of being a peasant or on the land for most people is not so much rural >idiocy, but rural drudgery for sure, and an increasingly impoverished >one at