Zizek's Lenin

[Brad De Long]

>  They
>>  don't include in the category "workers" the billions
>>  in the Third World who maybe absolutely worse off
>>  under capitalism than they were under their
>>  traditional economies.
>
>How?  I mean, I'm willing to be proved wrong on this,
>but It seems to me that, bad as conditions are in the
>third world today, they are somewhat better than they
>were before - or is subsistance agriculture, endemic
>disease, and locally-based despotism superior to a
>first world capitalist making a buck?
>
>Jim Baird

Life expectancy does seem to have doubled. And fertility suggests 
vastly improved nutritional status since, say, 1900...

Brad DeLong