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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 14:31:28 EDT
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> > The western nations did not reach their position of economic and cultural
> > dominance by trampling others (although once they reached it there was
> 
> If colonialism is not trampling, I don't know what is.  Before colonialism,
> it wasn't quite clear that the western nations were economically dominant.

Then how do you explain tiny Western armies conquering enormous existing
nations, some of them moderately sophisticated?  My point was that the
West's steep climb in technology and standard of living started long before
colonialism existed, and was a prerequisite for colonialism rather than
vice-versa.  I don't deny that colonialism constitutes trampling, but this
was an effect, not a fundamental cause, of Western growth.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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