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From: clarke@utcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED
Message-ID: <702@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 14:19:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 14:19:16 1985
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Reply-To: clarke@utcs.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX
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In article <5703@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> 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....
>-- 
>				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
>				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

Remember what the British did to the Indian cotton industry in the early
1800's?  Remember how important the British cotton industry was to British
industrialization, once it had finished off the Indians?

I'm sure there were lots of prouder moments, but even non-historians like
you and me ought to know about that particularly juicy bit of trampling.

Jim Clarke