At 11:27 AM 1/29/01 -1000, you wrote:
>Lou wrote:
>Henwood used to argue, except they
>formulated it slightly differently. They said that imperialism was
>manifested by the refusal of Great Britain, USA et al to invest in Africa.
>..., the imperialists prevented multinationals from "developing" Africa.
>
>Steve responds:
>Well, if that is Henwood's argument, it's not that far from Frantz Fanon,
>who argued that advanced capitalist countries frequently set conditions
>for investment on newly decolonized countries that keep them from being
>able to experience development *and* if they refused they would be faced
>with the very real threat of withdrawl altogether of financial assistance
>(which Fanon also felt they were owed from the advanced cap. world as
>reparations for years of pilfering of colonial economies...).
Well, okay. Frantz Fanon made no pretenses of being a Marxist. If Henwood
simply dropped that pretension himself, there would be less controversy
around his views in cyberspace. (I should add that his print views are
largely unobjectionable, although having little to do with classical Marxism.)
Louis Proyect
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