Michael: >Louis, I don't always agree with our friend from JHU, but I think that >you are going a bit over the top on this. If you look at the corporate >connections of my employers, you would not find a pretty picture. Maybe >Columbia is more pure. > >Even Ricardo is talking nice now about Jim B. So let's try to keep this >as convivial as possible. I won't say another word about this, but I was shocked personally to discover that Wojtek was a paid researcher for an outfit that is basically has the same relation to big Capital as the liberal missionary groups depicted in "Thy Will be Done". In the 1930s, the Rockefeller Foundation deployed liberal Christian missionary groups in Latin America to placate the masses. In exchange for vaccinations, literacy programs and free breakfasts, the poor people of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador lost control of their petroleum. These back-stabbing NGO's that the Johns Hopkins IPS are paid to research and promote have the same exact social and economic function in backward countries today. I'd personally rather eat dog shit than write policy papers for this outfit the way that Wojtek does, but that's my final word on the subject. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
