[lbo-talk] Trendlines

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Tue, October 9, 2007 4:45 pm, Carrol Cox wrote:


> But the world as a whole is _not_ better
> off. It is much worse off, and the outlook for improvement is fucking dim,
> precisely because u.s. capitalism is so fucking strong.

Which planet is this? Living standards, life expectancy, literacy and most
other metrics have improved over the past 30 years for the majority of
people on this planet - not because of neoliberalism, but because of
collective action, routed mostly through developmental states.

-- DRR