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From: jay@cadre.UUCP
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Subject: Re: White greed
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Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 01:52:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 01:52:24 1985
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Reply-To: jay@cadre.ARPA (Jay Ramanathan)
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Summary: 

>>(2) The so-called "developed" countries owe their position in
>>    world today - at least to a significant extent - to those
>>    poor, underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa.
>
>Actually, the converse is true.  Many of the poor
>underdeveloped countries owe THEIR position to the developed
>countries: the legacy of Spanish despotism in Latin America,
>British, in India and Africa, etc.  To make things worse, an
>new "worm" has been exported to the underdeveloped world
>by the west: Marxism.  Rather than build their economies, they
>can now be devoured by military dictators under the guise
>of "serving the people."  

Of course, one shouldn't forget the military dictatorships being
supported by "Capitalist" countries too: Pakistan, countries in
Latin America, etc.  One of the major "underdeveloped" countries
happens to be a democracy: India (in fact, the largest democracy in
the world) 

>The underdeveloped countries have
>been exploited, but the position of the developed countries
>is more due to culture and technology to any raw materials
>bought a little less cheaply (maybe!) than otherwise.

Development is a self-supporting process.  The developed
countries that have gained mileage have done it at the initial expense
of those less developed ones.  "Culture" and "technology" exist
in those countries too, but they simply can't penetrate into the 
competitive economies of developed countries and their cartels.