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From: makaren@alberta.UUCP (Darrell Makarenko)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 11:18:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 11:18:30 1985
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> > Don't fool yourself, we enjoy a higher standard of living because we
> > support dictatorships in developping countries who support big western
> > multinationals who plunder their resources and use their people as slaves.
> 
> Don't fool yourself.  This may -- repeat, may, although I don't believe
> it -- be the reason why our higher standard of living continues, but it
> is most emphatically not the way we got to this point in the first place.
> 
> The western nations did not reach their position of economic and cultural
> dominance by trampling others (although once they reached it there was
> indeed quite a bit of trampling).  They reached it by a form of natural
> selection:  they developed a culture that was better suited to rapid
> progress and internal economic growth than the world's other cultures.
>

   Give me a break!