[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl (Imperialism)

[Grant Lee]

> > Mexico, Brazil, India and S.Korea have bigger economies than the
> > Netherlands, Australia or Russia.
>
> India's GDP on PPP basis is larger than that of Germany. It's fourth
largest
> GDP on PPP basis globally after US, Japan and China. I don't know,
however,
> what all this has to do imperialism.

I was critiquing the use of GDP as a _sole_ indicator of imperialism. Those
PPP figures support my point.