[lbo-talk] the death penalty: Americans luv it

[Sean Andrews]

On 10/12/07, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> It's just that the Americans like to invent machines to accelerate the
> killing -- electric chairs and depleted uranium munitions. Whereas the
> British preferred to carry out their (neo)colonial genocides with mass
> starvation.

On 10/13/07, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
> The deeper problem is the non-equivalence of causality and agency in the
> world-market. Britain was one of the most democratic states in the world
> in the late 19th century - heck, even Marx could live and write in London
> - but British colonialism also murdered 1 million Irish peasants and 25-35
> million Indian peasants. Is that really more forgivable than the Nazi
> death-camps?

Is this a common theme of yours or are you reading something about
this right now?  Sounds like Mike Davis's _Late Victorian Holocausts_.

 If so, what do you think of it?

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