RES: [lbo-talk] Does Imperialism Block Independent Development?

[Grant Lee]

> At 12:52 AM -0200 23/1/04, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
> >-You´re right. Small nations have very small maneuvering margins in the
> >global economy.
>
> I think that should be small nations that have been colonised and
> continue to have to live with the consequences of that as well as
> under an imperialist dispensation.
>
> Can't help thinking of places such as the Scandinavian countries
> which would be "large" only in comparison with the micro-nations. Or
> New Zealand which is large in terms of geographical spread, but
> hardly in population.
>
> kj khoo

NZ-ers are fond of making the comparison between themselves and the
Japanese, both being developed societies which occupy islands roughly
similar in size, natural resources and climate.

There are, of course, significant differences, such as population (and its
implications for manufacturing etc., in terms of the internal market) and
the relatively large class of small crop farmers in Japan (as opposed to the
NZ norm of medium-sized livestock enterprises).

Grant.