fantasy and political organization

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 8 10:20:59 PDT 2001


Patrick Bond wrote:


>A surprising answer from Zimbabwe. Obviously,
>key to a new round of ISI would be basic-needs
>production (not the standard luxury goods
>protection).

A couple of questions. Just what are basic needs? And, if racist Rhodesia was the model of internally oriented development, how well off was the black population, and what was the trend in their welfare? Were they healthy and literate, and getting moreso? Or did it just have enough juice to pamper the white minority, the rest be damend?

Doug



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