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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 15:23:24 EDT
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> 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?

British industrialization was already well underway by the early 1800's,
as I recall.  And the West was clearly the dominant culture on the planet
well before that.  Non-dominant cultures are not in a position to forcibly
suppress competing industries on the other side of the world!  I certainly
agree that the West took advantage of its position once it *had* it.  But
the notion that the West climbed out of the mud in the first place by
pushing others back down into it is silly.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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