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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 12:20:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 12:20:49 1985
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In article <1689@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
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>>                                -- Rick.
>Not knowing how to define "capitalist", I can't say, but the Enclyclopaedia
>Britannica (1968 edition, so it's a bit out of date) lists the following
>20th century famines:
>1899-1901 Famine in India; 1,000,000 perished.  The government spent
	I doubt this was a proper capitalistic economy, more likely a
colonial dependent economy, subordinate to the British government.
>1905      Famine in Russia (Feudal or capitalist?)
	Definately feudal, or maybe imperialistic, but *not* capitalistic.
>1916      Famine in China (Capitalist?)
	Imperialistic, not capitalistic(in fact Nationalist China is
still not a captalistic country)
>1921      Famine in USSR (Not the Stalin-induced one)
	Ditto.
>1932-33   Famine in USSR (Ukraine, I suppose)
	Ditto
>1943      Famine in Bengal; about 1,500,000 perished (capitalist)
	Hmm, well I strongly suspect this wasn't really a capitalistic
economy either, tho I don't know for sure.
>1960-61   Famine in the Congo quickly relieved by the United Nations.
	And Congo is a confederation of *tribes*, with an essentially
tribal based economy, with a thin venier of government supported
industry.
>
	Basically the only ones that have any chance of a real claim
to a capitalistic economy are India and Bengal. The others are all
quite different in basic orientation and structure.
	The problem is that even today there are *very* few countries
that properly speaking have a true capitalistic economy, and even most
of those have thrown in a few socialistic variations. I can think of
USA, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Great Britain , and maybe a few
others.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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