BK on Identity

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Mar 4 09:24:39 PST 2001


On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >I think that the U.S. working class don't benefit from imperialism.
> >They just bear the costs of imperialism.
>
> A poverty income in the U.S. is at something like the 90th percentile
> of the world income distribution. Isn't there some imperial advantage
> behind this fact?
>
> Doug

Isn't this comparison a bit specious? People in the South aren't paying $1000 for a dinky one bedroom apartment, are they?

Miles



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