On May 9, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> It was bourgeois democracies that reduced Africa to its present
> status. It was a bourgeois democracy that superintended the
> genocide of
> Indians in the u.s. It was a bourgeois democracy that that created the
> situation summarzied in the phrase, "the open veins of Latin America."
How democratic were the countries that colonized Africa and Latin America, actually? They were capitalist, but how widespread was the franchise? This is a real question, not some rhetorical trick.
Doug