--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: I agree with Doug that imperialism - as a world system - was responsible (if that's the right word) for the impoverished conditions these states were created in. Of course, people make their own history, too, and the way that the Khmer Rouge or Mao or Ceaucescu or Mobutu played the hand that was dealt them is down to them. And the brutality imposed upon them from outside was easily a match for the internal atrocities.
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Yes, appealing a to a world system as a sufficient reason for everything that happens is kind of like saying that oxygen is the cause of forest fires and the breakup of Pangaea was the root cause of the Roman Empire. Trivially true, but not very helpful.
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