Marx on Greens

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Sun Jul 28 04:00:53 PDT 2002


Ulhas Joglekar :
> James Heartfield :
>
> > The barrier to agricultural output imposed by the capitalist system was
> > that of undercapitalisation of farms in the developing world. That is
> > why the famines tend to occur in the Third World rather than the First.
>
> Famines don't occur in Asia as far as I know. Which part of the Third
World
> do they occur?

Sorry, I wasn't accurate. Famines have occurred in Asia in recent years. North Korea and Afghanistan have had famines.

India eliminated famines 50 years ago.

Ulhas



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