to
bail out Argentina, Turkey or any other country. But if you take that
decision many other things have to happen too.
One of those things, he says, is that the world has to get used to
lower debt-recovery levels. the FT article continues. And quotes
Lavagna again: That is the reality
Argentina helps keep up facade
By coming to a last-minute deal with Buenos Aires, the International
Monetary Fund has avoided showing how powerless it really is
Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott
Thursday March 11, 2004
The Guardian
It was like a boxing match which goes to the final bell
Argentina and IMF in duel over $3.1bn loan
Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny
Tuesday March 9, 2004
The Guardian
Argentina was last night on a collision course with the International
Monetary Fund after the heavily indebted Latin American country signalled
it was preparing to default on a $3.1bn
Politicians almost invariably disappoint me, failing to meet even my new
expectations. Kirschner may be an exception.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/
In Argentina, the law and lawless seen to merge
By Reed Lindsay, Globe Correspondent, 1/24/2004
BUENOS AIRES - Police Corporal Mariano Lewicki has made a habit of looking
over his shoulder. Seated in an upscale cafe in a suburb north of Buenos
Aires, the 31-year
[Los Angeles Times]
2000 Argentina Bribe Scandal Reopens After New Confession
By Héctor Tobar
Times Staff Writer
December 14, 2003
BUENOS AIRES - A congressional official's emotional confession in a report
published Saturday has reopened one of Argentina's most notorious
scandals, shedding light
Who will blink first - Argentina or its creditors?
Reuters, 12.11.03, 10:22 AM ET
By Hugh Bronstein and Brian Winter
NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Call it an $88
billion game of chicken.
On one side is Argentina, the proud and once-prosperous nation that two
years ago
companies of Argentina were, during
those years, among the most profitable enterprises in the world.
But they obtained these profits not only from unbelievably high
prices (in dollars) but also from unconceivably anti-social
savings.
Of course, all the blame falls on the electrical companies after
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From: Jurriaan Bendien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] What is to be done in Argentina
do you think that writing a book can have
, and
IMHO a good report in English on the Argentinean situation in the last
couple of months needs more than some minutes snatched off my employer´s time.
Today, I will give my views on Lou Pr.´s posting on what should be done in
Argentina. But in order to answer, I will have to begin with some
All Argentina needs is a few latter-day Lenins who can write a What is to be Done
updated for the current
struggle.
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Doug Henwood wrote:
When I interviewed Naomi Klein, who spent most of the past year in
Argentina, she said that there were so many sectarian Trot parties
trying to tell the spontaneous mass assemblies what to do that they
turned lots of people off from politics. Instead of following the
vanguard
be a springboard for a
continent-wide assault on capitalism. In fact, he disassociated himself
from his more orthodox followers, including Plekhanov, who did believe
that capitalism was a prerequisite for socialism.
First of all I wouldn't say Argentina is a capitalist
country. I think it is a country
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
Whether or not a book has a big effect, depends I think on numerous
factors, and a publisher would affirm this:
- its content and form
- who wrote it
- the life and doings of the author
- the specific context it is written in, or
Devine, James wrote:
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
When I interviewed Naomi Klein, who spent most of the past year in
Argentina, she said that there were so many sectarian Trot parties
trying to tell the spontaneous mass assemblies what to do that they
turned lots
This is a snippet from a dialog between Z Magazine publisher Michael
Albert and Argentine radical Ezequiel Adamovsky at:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41ItemID=3995.
The more I read about Argentina, the more it appears that the political
crisis on the left stems from
in Argentina. Downward mobility
seems a tragic understatement. Under such conditions, I suspect most
people are worried about basic needs. A revolutionary movement would
have to be able to touch their imagination and ignite their dwindling
hopes.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
, and for no other reason.
J.
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:08 PM
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my feeling is that for a book to have a big impact, it has to fall on a
fertile field
Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own
Wall Street Pushed Debt Till the Last
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 3, 2003; Page A01
BUENOS AIRES -- Ah, the memories: Feasting on slabs of tender Argentine
steak. Skiing at a resort overlooking a shimmering lake in the Andes
[NY Times]
July 6, 2003
Workers in Argentina Take Charge of Abandoned Factories
By LARRY ROHTER
BUENOS AIRES, July 5 - The workers at the IMPA aluminum plant here all can remember
when their
company was privately owned, and a few veterans even recall when it was the property
of the
state
IMF Chief Meets with Troubled Argentina
Reuters
Monday, June 23, 2003; 11:05 PM
By Hugh Bronstein
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund began
talks with Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner Monday, as the country's
new government made a fresh start at pulling
LA Times, Feb. 18, 2003
The Good Life Is No More for Argentina
The nation rode high on a free-market system, backed by the IMF and tied
to the dollar. Then the global economy spun it into disaster.
By Héctor Tobar, Times Staff Writer
SAN ISIDRO, Argentina -- More than any other developing
Title: Argentina
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-argecon18feb18001440,1,1676421.story
The Good Life Is No More for Argentina
The nation rode high on a free-market system, backed by the IMF and tied to the dollar. Then the global economy spun it into disaster.
By Hector
IMF man facing graft charge bailed in Argentina
Reuters, 02.15.03, 5:45 PM ET
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - An International Monetary Fund employee, arrested
on corruption charges linked to his stint as
Peru's economy chief under disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, was freed on bail
Dear members of Pen-L,
My name is Marcela Perelman, I live and work in Buenos Aires. I work at
Center for Social and Legal Studies (Centro de Estudios Legales y
Sociales/ CELS), an NGO with a large tradition in the fight for human
rights since last dictatorship.
I work for a program named
washingtonpost.com
IMF Readying 'Transitional' Loan to Head Off Argentine Default
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 14, 2003; Page A07
More than a year after cutting off its lending to Argentina, the
International Monetary Fund is poised to grant a transitional
Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups
New Internationalist Magazine
Sunday, July 7, 2002
by Greg Palast
The big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international
finance's coup in Argentina has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the
inside track on two very different power-grabs
Child hunger deaths shock Argentina
Economic crisis sharpens poverty in world's fourth biggest food exporting
country
Hannah Baldock in Tucuman, Argentina
Monday November 25, 2002
The Guardian
Children are dying daily of malnutrition in Argentina as a result of the
catastrophic economic crisis
Are there any Argentines here who can comment on this? Sabri
++
Financial Times
Argentina defaults on loan repayment
By Alan Beattie in Washington
November 15 2002 0:29
The Argentine government on Thursday took the extraordinary step
of defaulting on a loan repayment
Financial Times
IMF plays down Argentina debt default
By Peter Hudson in Buenos Aires and Caroline Daniel in Washington
November 16 2002
The International Monetary Fund on Friday played down the
significance of Argentina's default on debt repayments to the
World Bank, its sister institution
The latest NLR has an article
(http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25104.shtml) by a liberal professor
named David Rock on the economic crisis in Argentina that covers the
same terrain as the series of articles I posted here some months back
(http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs
Forwarded from the PGA list. Sabri
+++
The following are excerpts from the speach Hebe de Bonifini,
leaders of the organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo gave on
October 24,2002:
Companeros, you no doubt know that last week I was at the Zanon
factory. I went in representation of
Thursday, October 17
Argentina: Alternative Media and Social Movements / Argentina:
Medios Alternativos y Movimientos Sociales
Lecture by Marie Trigona, with Videos Slides / Conferencia por
Marie Trigona, con proyeccion de videos y diapositivas
Marie Trigona, an independent journalist
For what its worth, here is a recent Stratfor analysis. Sabri
+
Argentina: Duhalde May Have More To Gain in Default
24 September 2002
Summary
The chance that the International Monetary Fund will sign an aid
agreement with Argentina's government appears slim at best.
Senior fund
of more than 100
former employers in the last nine months, either to save their jobs or in
lieu of back pay. Authorities turn a blind eye to such seizures in a country
with unemployment at 22 percent and half the population in poverty.
``Argentina is going back to the Dark Ages,'' said Oscar Liberman
Well, my source was wrong. Argentina says that it will not use its bank
reserves to bail out the IMF. Come on, Mat, tell us more about it.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does yesterday's story that Argentina had agreed to use its bank reserves
to pay that the IMF mean that that the government has capitulated?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael - There are mixed signals. Some officials said they would use
reserves to make payments, some said they would under certain
conditions, some said they would make their September payment, but not
October, etc. See, e.g.,:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020924-033746-5194r
If you
Last night's Wide Angle Public TV documentary on Argentina was an
eye-opener. Eschewing any kind of political or economic analysis of how the
country ended up in the desperate situation it is in today, it focused on a
handful of individuals who are emblematic of the country's fitful attempt
From: Anthony D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Carl Remick wrote:
I just saw that PBS show on Argentina that Lou recommended earlier, The
Empty ATM. Quite interesting, especially the Stiglitz interview at the
end. One memorable quote from an Argentine: In a land where
. He specifically cited Mexico's rebound after
1995 as what Argentina needed, implicitly giving his approval to NAFTA and
other forms of free trade liberalization.
Plus, JS noted that Argentine beef is very tasty, a pitch certain to
appeal to ever-widening US viewers ;-)
Carl
Plus, JS noted that Argentine beef is very tasty, a pitch certain to
appeal to ever-widening US viewers ;-)
Carl
If I run into Stiglitz on the Columbia campus, I might ask him what he
thinks of Cuba, especially in light of his successor James Wolfensohn has
to say: ''Cuba has done a great
Louis Proyect wrote:
Plus, JS noted that Argentine beef is very tasty, a pitch certain
to appeal to ever-widening US viewers ;-)
Carl
If I run into Stiglitz on the Columbia campus, I might ask him what
he thinks of Cuba, especially in light of his successor James
Wolfensohn has to say:
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I run into Stiglitz on the Columbia campus, I might ask him what he
thinks of Cuba, especially in light of his successor James Wolfensohn has
to say: ''Cuba has done a great job on education and health.They have done
a good job, and it does not
I just saw that PBS show on Argentina that Lou recommended earlier, The
Empty ATM. Quite interesting, especially the Stiglitz interview at the
end. One memorable quote from an Argentine: In a land where everyone
protests, nothing gets done. Of course, looking at the US, it seems clear
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Carl Remick wrote:
I just saw that PBS show on Argentina that Lou recommended earlier, The
Empty ATM
Thanks Lou,
Your contributions are inestimable. We are at another juncture, which you
grasp and expresses in your contributions.
Thanks!
You have singularly altered my perception of what I thought was the
Trotskyite movement and individuals. I hope that an old Stalinist dog such
as I have
in
front of ATMs.
We're becoming another Argentina, said Maurice Lopez, 45, a Montevideo
store clerk who waited today to withdraw cash from an ATM. I can't believe
it has come to this.
full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28776-2002Jul31.html
Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups
by Greg Palast
New Internationalist Magazine - July 2002
The big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international finance's coup in
Argentina has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the inside track on two very different
power-grabs
Wednesday, July 3, 2002
Is China the Next Argentina?
China's sagging economy is threatening to turn China into an Asian version
of Argentina, a top financial journal warns.
Unless it can patch up the situation, China risks becoming Asia's
Argentina... the people's Republic can go from boom
- Original Message -
From: Steve Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unless it can patch up the situation, China risks becoming
Asia's
Argentina... the people's Republic can go from boom to bust in
just a few
short years, wrote Gordon Chang in the June 19, Asian Wall
Street Journal
as quoted
Dear Louis,
Could you forward this text about the repression in Argentina to a variety
of US leftist lists/sites, and request further publicity. It's in Spanish,
which means there it might be difficult for some, but there are many who
speak it, so... If anybody is interested in making a quick
in order to force your govmts
to have the IMF out of Argentina!!
This time, we need you all more than we ever needed you all.
Hug,
Nestor
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
NY Times, June 26, 2002
Blows Keep Coming for an Argentina Long in Crisis
By LARRY ROHTER
BUENOS AIRES, June 25 The president says it may be impossible to reach
any agreement with the International Monetary Fund, the head of the central
bank is giving up and going home, and the economy
In Argentina capitalism is a dirty word, so executives set up
'feed the kids' website
By TONY SMITH, AP Business Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - With Argentina slumped in its
fourth year of recession, cash-strapped banks can't pay out their
customers' savings. Ordinary folk are reduced
the
surplus created by the productive class.
This alignment, which evoked the political philosophy of Saint-Simon,
could not begin to do justice to the complex social relationships
within Argentina and on an international level in the mid-1950s.
Rather it evoked the French Revolution with its
http://www.dieoff.com/page229.pdf
~~~
PLEASE clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.
Here is the thing Michael,
It is not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing. I live quite
peacefully with many people I disagree with and indeed am known
by many as quite a gentle person.
Here is what I heard from someone when I defended Michael
Pugliese the other day, when that person, also a
Chris writes:
As the petering out of Argentinean revolutionary
hopes now shows. So much for revolutionary bravado
that fails to look at the actual balance of
forces. Demoralising and demobilising
My Friend,
I told you once, I am telling you for the second time: your style
is annoying and
Chris Burford:
As the petering out of Argentinan revolutionary hopes now shows. So much
for revolutionary bravado that fails to look at the actual balance of
forces. Demoralising and demobilising.
What in the world are you talking about? There has been little evidence in
Argentina of support
Sabri Oncu
I am offended that you address me as My friend and sign your letter
love (or as on another list, hugs), when you say you usually try to
avoid reading my emails.
Please avoid them, bin them, or filter them out. If you wish the reply to
the point in question either agree or
I hope that Sabri was not being serious when he wrote his post. We can
differ on politics without getting upset with each other. The delete key
is a more pleasant way to communicate under some circumstances.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:47:31PM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
Sabri Oncu
I am
Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian
...
Now the G7 is trying to prove that it is tough enough to stand aside and
watch a country suffer and unfortunately for Argentina, it has become the
guinea pig.
Limiting big bailouts is a necessary reform, but there is as yet no
alternative system in place
to pay attention
to the Parliament when ruling. We were facing a new political crisis,
and his own Presidency was at stake.
Eduardo Duhalde responded to the crisis by returning to the uses of
Argentina during the 1830s (and recognizing the actual situation to
which the destruction of the national state
attempting to address the question of what Perón stood for, it
is necessary to review the economic problems that faced Argentina
prior to his ascendancy. By the early 20th century, Argentina had
already become dominated by a coalition of the local ruling classes
based on the ranching, grain growing
to prevent panic withdrawals by account holders who,
rightly, feared that high-level talks to restart aid payments to Argentina would
fail.
The account holders were also spooked by the rapidly falling value of the country's
currency, the peso.
The move to close the banks partially succeeded
Here is one more. Sabri
==
Police Shield Argentine Congress From Public Fury
Tue Apr 23, 1:24 PM ET
By Stephen Brown
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Armed police ringed
Argentina's Congress Tuesday to protect legislators from public
anger at plans to convert their bank deposits
speaking of Argentina, pen-pals may enjoy the recent movie from Argentina,
The Nine Queens (in Spanish, with subtitles). It's an interesting film
about con artists, including some mild social commentary. One thing is how
much Buenos Aires looks like a North American city... JD
Sympathy, but no cash
Apr 22nd 2002
From The Economist Global Agenda
As Argentinas financial crisis continues to deepen, any hopes
that new help might soon be forthcoming from the International
Monetary Fund have quickly faded. Argentina will have to deliver
concrete reforms first
CROCODILE
for imperialist status is South Africa.
As you can see, Belgium and Switzerland show high rates of outward FDI,
and most FDI is to and from Europe - and almost nothing is _from_ the
likes of Argentina, Malaysia or Saudi Arabia.
I note that the HK and Singaporean outward FDI figures cited
Bill R:
Thanks for a very interesting post and the references, which I haven't had
time to check yet.
I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact quote, but somewhere in _Capital_
Marx (slightly tongue-in-cheek) quotes Adam Smith saying that all entrepôts
are barbaric; Marx's point being that
Charles Brown wrote:
Profits aside, two features of FDI which seem to clearly differentiate developed
and developing countries (in the context of the US foreign investment thread,
imperial vs neo-colonies) appear to be the balance between inward and outward
investment stock (biased towards
Louis:
For the
foreseeable future, places like Argentina and Venezuela are on the
front lines. In places such as these, anti-imperialist consciousness
will fuel the proletarian revolution just as it did in Vietnam, Cuba,
China and many other countries where victory was not achived
,
and
most FDI is to and from Europe - and almost nothing is _from_ the likes of
Argentina, Malaysia or Saudi Arabia.
I note that the HK and Singaporean outward FDI figures cited are higher than
any of the European states you have cited, except Switzerland.
Trade/GDP in Austria is 44% and 38
Grant Lee wrote:
HK and Singapore are entrepots, and
they are city-economies, which indicates the need to qualify the
significance of their numbers
It seems to me that if no western state is very similar --- and I'm not
convinced this is the case --- to HK and Singapore it would have
56.1
Malaysia67.022.7
Indonesia 73.32.4
Argentina 13.95.4
Brazil 17.11.4
Interesting figures. I haven't had time to look at the comparable figures
for other countries. In any case
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:37:28 +1200, Bill Rosenberg wrote:
It's difficult to say what profit figures would
show. The ability of TNCs to transfer their
profits from one country another for tax,
political or internal reasons must make the
profit attributed to their operations in any one
country
LP:
But I wouldn't compare what happened in Australia to what happened to
Nicaragua, however. The USA could have lived with a Labor government in
Australia. It was on the other hand ready to break laws and risk a
constitutional crisis to topple a government that it feared would become
another
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:46:00 +0900, Charles Jannuzi wrote:
US policies toward New Zealand came damn close
when NZ objected to US ships not confirming
whether or not they carried nukes in NZ waters
and harbors.
In the case of Australia, the US has taken the
place of GB as key 'military ally' and
The CIA in Australia, Part 1
... and individuals in Australia. Today, in part 1 ... operations against the
Whitlam government
through the ... for covert actions. Covert Action often means the ...
http://www.serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm - 24k - Cached -
Similar pages
The CIA in
LP:
Perhaps we have a different definition of imperialism. I don't regard
US bullying and imperialism as the same thing. Switzerland and Sweden
have never bullied anybody in recent years, but they are imperialist
powers. US imperialism rules the roost, but it has junior partners
including
April 5, 1998
THE SWISS, THE GOLD, AND THE DEAD
By Jean Ziegler.
Translated by John Brownjohn.
322 pp. New York:
Harcourt Brace Company. $27.
(Review)
Gnomes and Nazis
An account of Switzerland's role in financing Germany's war machine.
By PETER GROSE
(Peter Grose, a research fellow at
Louis P. pointed out that shoe production in SE Asia for western companies
is often done through subcontractors. Bata Shoes has production and retail
worldwide and it tries to sell shoes locally based on the income of the avg.
worker so as to keep the shoes affordable. Everytime I go to Malaysia
Argentina, Australia and Canada (and US foreign investment)
by Bill Rosenberg
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Nice synthesis of these threads, Bill.
Profits aside, two features of FDI which seem to clearly differentiate developed
and developing countries (in the context of the US foreign investment thread,
imperial
56.1
Malaysia67.022.7
Indonesia 73.32.4
Argentina 13.95.4
Brazil 17.11.4
Interesting figures. I haven't had time to look at the comparable figures
for other countries
Top Financial News
04/19 19:44
Argentina Closes Banks Indefinitely to Block Deposits (Update4)
By David Plumb
Buenos Aires, April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina closed banks
indefinitely in an effort to block a rising outflow of deposits.
Central Bank Vice President Aldo Pignanelli told
Louis Proyect writes:
there are degrees. Japan isn't going to become a neo-colony in the near
future, but it's clear that US-based companies use their clout to push
for
opening the Japanese economy to freer flow of capital, etc., so that US
companies can buy Japanese assets, etc., at
Louis:
Basically, I
advocate anti-imperialist slogans in places like Argentina and Venezuela,
in combination with demands against the local comprador bourgeoisie. The
most powerful revolutions in this hemisphere over the past 50 years have
identified with the historical colonial revolution
56.1
Malaysia67.022.7
Indonesia 73.32.4
Argentina 13.95.4
Brazil 17.11.4
Interesting figures. I haven't had time to look at the comparable figures
for other countries
the UN data that indicated that Australia ranks
SECOND in the world in terms of standard of living indicators. What kind of
drop is this supposed to be then? Argentina ranked among the top nations in
the world in the early 1900s but ranked SEVENTY-FIFTH in 2001. It has
probably dropped lower
Louis:
You said:
But I am trying to address the question of whether Argentina is
qualitatively different from Great Britain. My purpose in these posts
is to answer a current within Marxism that asserts that there is no
difference.
In that case you were complicating matters by referring
changed
a great deal since Lenin's lifetime: in
particular, there are now very few cases of
formal/legal/military/direct control.
Do you not see decolonisation since 1945 as a
major historical event? Isn't there a world of
difference between imperialism in India in 1920
and Argentina in 2002?
No, I do
Louis,
I'm sorry you feel that way. I took your reference to Lenin meant that you
favoured the national front tactics of the early 1920s, which did involve
bourgeois nationalists (in dependent countries).
Imperialism deals with class relations, not which flag is flying over
a country.
I
and the
historical agency of indigenous layers of
capital (in particular).
But I am trying to address the question of whether Argentina is
qualitatively different from Great Britain. My purpose in these posts
is to answer a current within Marxism that asserts that there is no
difference. Not surprisingly
Left nationalism is nothing new in Canada and it certainly not a novel
theory of Ross Dowson. Left nationalism was a strong current in the NDP (New
Democractic Party) a social democratic party that ruled in BC,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and even Ontario for a while. It still governs
Manitoba and
of the same time. In
fact, the textile mills of Mexico City, capitalized by mining
revenues, put Boston to shame.
Ironically, the opposite kind of stereotype seems to have developed
around Argentina. Instead of seeing it as a semicolony whose
development has been stunted by imperialism, much of the left
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as
relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization
and
obfuscation in this account also. Since I have already published
several
hundreds of pages and articles on this subject
Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina
than Canada. Why? Was it because the settlers were ethnically different
in Argentina from those in Canada? Did Britain have to behave differently
toward Commonwealth countries?
Paul, could you give us a brief outline
Michael,
I don't know enough about Argentina to do a proper comparison,
but a few points on Canada -- since the break with British
colonialism in Canada's case was initiated by Britain over the
opposition of the ruling elite in Canada.
1. The British were losing money on the Canadian
(in
particular).
For example, you say Great Britain built railways in Argentina as though
it was
the British state/society and not a few British companies, backed by the
occasional gunboat. (BTW Is the Argentine parliamentarian you cite a
Marxian political economist?)
No, Whitehall didn't have to send
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