[lbo-talk] pain & development

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 3 07:14:11 PST 2003


Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: Hasn't the human population doubled in 150 years ? What is the absolute
>number of poor people today compared with 150 years ago ?

Charles, that's silly. The absolute numbers don't matter anywhere near as much as percentages. There are probably more rich people in China today than there were immiserated proles in Engels' Britain. Does that tell us much about the two social systems?

Doug



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