[kj] OT... World Destruction

[Neil Perry]

I don't know the answers to your questions. But I didn't say the
colonisation of other countries had nothing to do with capitalism. I said
the Rwandan massacre had nothing to do with capitalism, as you had said.

Sure, European countries with capitalist political systems had 
colonised that part of Africa a century earlier, but I refuse to see
a direct link between that and why they started hacking each other
to pieces, 30 years after they had become an independent nation,
with no capitalist colonisers to be seen.

N


"B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote: Well, if capitalist countries can colonize other countries, and it has 
"nothing to do with capitalism," then why isn't that latitude granted to 
what Crack insists are communist countries, when they invade others?

Why can't we say that Stalin's invasions had nothing to with communism, 
then? Kind of a double standard that conveniently works for the 
cheerleaders of free markets: all evil redounds to what's selectively 
defined as communism in Crack-world -- and all that's good and wholesome 
and nice and fuzzy redounds to capitalism. And when a capitalist country 
does bad, well it wasn't the capitalism in it that did it. It was an 
aberration.

O-kay. Whatever.

-Oliver



Neil Perry wrote:

> Not getting involved in this, but feel compelled to butt in regarding

> Rwanda - the tragedy there had absolutely nothing to do with capitalism.

> It may have had its roots in European colonialism, possibly, but not

> capitalism. The deaths - approximately 800,000 - were caused by one 

> ethnic group, the Hutus, attempting to completely wipe out another 

> ethnic group, the Tutsis.

>

> N

>

> */GREG SLAWSON /* wrote:

>

>     These figures are mostly made up. Even a look at census figures

>     disproves them. How many have capitalism killed? 500,000 in

>     Rowanda? 1.5 million in Iraq, JUST under Bill Clinton (not to

>     mention the ongoing killilngs by the CIA-installed Hussein)? 2 or

>     more million in Asia during the Vietnam War? 20 million in WWII?

>     etc. etc. Besides, how many lives did the capitalists' main enemy

>     of all time, the evil Stalin, save by stopping Hitler in his tracks?

>

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