[kj] Jaz would nt appreciate this article

[GregSlawson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/5/2005 10:16:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
BodkJer at aol.com writes:

> >> The latest figure, compiled by world hunger groups and such, is 50,000 
>> die each day 
> 
> 
>  Is this just from poverty related issues or just a general daily death 
> figure across the planet from whatever cause?
>   
>  This is not a dig, but you mentioned that Karl marx "forecast" stuff.
>   
>  Surely its in our own hearts we know the truth and see the future. Must we 
> look to people from the past, who would know nothing of the world we live in 
> to prohesise our future. Prediction is easy if you get it right, most times 
> its a 50/50 guess.
>   
> Im open to discussion here, hopefully its a thread rather than a name 
> calling session.
>   
> 

     I believe the figure is just from hunger and poverty-related disease 
(the 30,000 might be just from hunger alone, I forgot). So it wouldn't include 
stuff like heart attacks and accidents, even thought those are of course partly 
preventable too. 
     Second, I don't mean to make Marx into some sort of prophet. He was 
wrong about some stuff (for ex, he thought a country would or at least had to go 
thru a stage of capitalism and then would go into a stage of socialism, then 
communism. Well, first of all, the Chinese went from feudalism, then to 
socialism, THEN to capitalism. Of course, the Soviets have returned to capitalism too, 
but sort of screwed that up too. I just meant that Marx really did figure out 
the economics laws that STILL apply--for example, that companies would merge 
in order to cut losses and become more profitable (a huge factor in today's 
economy).
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