Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> The notion that countries in other parts of
> the world (i.e., Africa, South America; why not?) cannot
> be developmental states has the character of a self-
> fulfilling prophecy, insofar as the developed countries
> could be accused of upholding such a uniquely
> humane rationale for the satiation of their base
> desire for plunder.
>
Has any industrialized nation become so without truly immense destruction of human life? I would guess that U.S. and U.K. industrialization was the bloodiest, Stalin's USSR a close second.
Carrol