Ravi, James' whole argument is transparent sophistry that a first-year logic or rhetoric student could see through. ;)
--- On Fri, 5/1/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> From: ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] 35-cent ice cream and anarchist theory
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, May 1, 2009, 5:02 PM
> On May 1, 2009, at 3:58 PM, James
> Heartfield wrote:
> > Joseph Catron: "mainstream ecology would hold that the
> Earth cannot support anything close to six billion people
> with lifestyles remotely approaching that of the average
> Western worker"
> >
> > Yes, it is convenient that science keeps coming up
> with reason why non-Europeans must be kept in poverty.
>
>
> What is convenient is Europeans, pleading for the rest, in
> defence of their lifestyle. ;-)
>
> --ravi
>
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