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> From: "// ravi" <ravi at platosbeard.org>
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> With that behind, I will return to the issue at hand. What do we make of
> Kerala and the role of technological progress in shaping the lives of
> individuals? You write that modern socialists have turned into
> anti-industrial eco-fanatics (btw, I do not hold new environmentalism(*) in
> much esteem) who devalue life and that maybe that’s because they have lost
> faith in the idea of socialism or communism. Funny thing about Kerala and
> the idea of socialism/communism… you should look it up! :-)
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> —ravi
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> Well, Kerala is socialist right? Hence the higher female literacy and
> therefore the lower infant mortality, and possibly more equitable
> distribution of wealth and/or availability of preventive health services or
> sanitation, hence slightly higher life expectancy than the "rich" nations.
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> Joanna
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And I hear from people with extensive experience on the ground in Kerala that as neoliberal reforms are imposed on India, socialist power in Kerala has declines and the conditions that made all those improvements possible are decaying. But, it must be a decline in the amount and quality of technology.