[lbo-talk] Gaddafi the liberator

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 2 01:20:36 PDT 2009


Hmmm. So basically Brazil is wrong for reinforcing the culture of poverty.

"We are not seeing any new attitudes emerging in the popular consciousness, but rather a reinforcement of the values of letting others have control, fatalism, individualism and atomisation. This is also apparent in Brazil, where the establishment of an aid system for the poor (Bolsa Familia) has made millions of poor proletarians dependent on a miserable amount of money set aside by the government each month and distributed to individuals by banks. This leads to individualisation and atomisation. In these aid systems, attitudes of solidarity do not grow, but in fact disappear."



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