[lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jan 18 12:06:33 PST 2011


I have no strong opinion on this, but perhaps Joanna's point would be less vulnerable if she were to use a weaker term than "deprivation." Clearly the U.S. population is not as "well off" as in the'60s; there's been relative deprivation or austerity or _________. Is something like that true (or apt to become true) of some of the nations Doug names?

Some proportion of the Chinese population was probably better fed and had better medical care before "the change" (for lack of a better or more precise term) than is the case now. How large that portion is I wouldn't know.

Carrol

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of 123hop at comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:33 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures

Countries participate in the world market in different ways. Perhaps I'm being thick and misreading "participate in world market" as a euphemism for the neoliberal globalization project.

It just seems like the participation of some countries....say Eastern Europe...means sudden immiseration and a drop in life expectancy. I dunno.

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:20:27 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures

On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> OK. But so far as the hoi polloi are concerned, being included in the
world market seems to go hand in hand with deprivation. What am I missing here?

How do you figure that? Japan, Western Europe, Canada, China, S Korea are all part of the world market. Are they deprived?

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