> On 11/29/2010 10:22 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
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> Yup, you couldn't be more right. North Korea is absolutely, without a
>> doubt, and clearly my fantasy socialist state. How'd you know?!
>>
>
>
> I know you're no fan of North Korea. I'll admit my post was probably too
> terse to escape being unfair. My point is just that, looking around
> empirically, if you're trying to put your finger on what makes some
> societies more xenophobic and others less so, the hegemony of capital
> doesn't seem to be a very significant correlate, does it? So why stress it
> the way you did?
>
>
Xenophobia's surely complex. At the same time, I have a feeling that
there's an empirically defensible proposition in the suggestion that the
more egalitarian the distribution of wealth - under capitalist democracies
where that distribution is significantly rooted in social movement
activities AND without denying that there was xenophobia between 1945 and
1975 in the advanced industrial west - the greater the percentage of the
population amenable to anti-xenophobic economics, politics and culture.