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From: geb@cadre.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: White greed
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 15:05:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 15:05:06 1985
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Reply-To: geb@cadre.ARPA (Gordon E. Banks)
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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."  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.