Re: reparations

[Doug Henwood]

Louis Proyect wrote:

>Capitalism does have something to do with lower infant mortality and longer
>lifespans. It improved them in Belgium while degrading them in the Belgian
>Congo.

People in almost all regions of the world are living longer now than 
they did 20, 50, or 100 years ago. To say that isn't to say 
imperialism isn't horrible. But it is entirely within the Marxian 
tradition to say that capitalism has brought with it certain social 
benefits.

Doug