[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

[andie nachgeborenen]

Yes, Doug, Manchesterian (proto neo-liberal) ideology, rigidly maintained; no state intervention, sell where demand is high. (People were starving in Ireland but had no money, so there was little effective demand.) See Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Great Hunger. As Mike Davis documents in his LAte Victorioan Holocausts, the Brits did the same thing during a number of Indian famines.

--- On Tue, 8/5/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 10:45 AM
> On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote:
> 
> > That's not entirely accurate, Chris. It's true
> that very few people in
> > Ireland - although there are some - accept the
> diaspora's image of the
> > famine as an intentional genocide. But nearly
> everybody accepts that
> > the death rate was as high as it was because of
> Britain's utterly
> > inadequate response to the blight.
> 
> Didn't Ireland continue to export food to Britain
> during the famine?
> 
> Doug
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