Once a Close Economic Rival of China, India Falls Behind

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>  >Ulhas, comments on either of these if you've read them. Orthodox 
>marxist, Bill Warren, "Imperialism:Pioneer
>>of Capitalism, " Verso Books. Late Irish communist in BICO.
>
>I haven't read Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism". (It is
>out print for some time now.) My impressions about Warren's are based on
>Aijaz Ahmad's essay Imperialism and Progress (included in Lineages of the
>Present). I would rather not comment on Bill Warren at this stage. But let
>me say that I don't find writers like Jim Blaut very convincing. I don't
>subscribe to the view that the "Third Word" capitalism is a moribund
>capitalism. Every third Malaysian owns a cell phone, while North Koreans
>have to fed by the US and Japan. But then this is red baiting !
>
>Ulhas

Exactly what argument are you arguing against?  I post one NYT 
article on China and India, and then you'll talk about Jim Blaut, 
cell phones in Malaysia, famine and malnutrition in North Korea, and 
red baiting, and the next we know, we'll be onto Aijaz Ahmad vs. Bill 
Warren, if their books are in print.  Neither China surging ahead of 
India nor the other way around makes or breaks dependency theory or 
world systems theory or modernization theory or classical Marxist 
theory or any other take on capitalism in former colonies.  You are 
making a mountain out of a molehill, so to speak.
-- 
Yoshie

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