[lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT:

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 3 12:48:32 PST 2003


Michael Dawson -PSU wrote:


>Wojtek: "[T]here is no causal link
>between African poverty and Northern prosperity."
>
>Truly astounding -- truly. Slavery had no impact on either side, left no
>legacy? The IMF is independent of U.S. business interests? The fact that
>the North has imposed and won the poker game of global income distribution
>has no causal connection to Africa? Given your views, then, by definition,
>the only obstacle to African development is Africa itself.
>
>Yours is the most astonishingly out-of-touch and unrealistic post I've seen
>on this board. Shocking. And I'm not being PC here. You're just radically
>disconnected from the facts.

There no question that slavery contributed enormously to European and North American wealth. How does African poverty today contribute to European and North American wealth. You write as if it's self-evident, but pretend you're dealing with the slow class and lay it out plainly.

Doug



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