>9. Foreign policy issues are not important domestic politics. Why should
>they be important? We are free and independent nation. Marxists,
>particularly of anti-imperialist variety, don't appreciate that calling
>independent nations 'semi-colonies' and 'peripheries' is the worst possible
>insult.
>
>Ulhas
>From Sanjaya Baru's "Strategic Consequences of India's Economic
Performance" in Economic and Political Weekly, June 29, 2002
Distribution of World Income: 1700-1995
1700 1820 1890 1952 1978 1995
China 23.1 32.4 13.2 5.2 5.0 10.9
India 22.6 15.7 11.0 3.8 3.4 4.6
Japan 4.5 3.0 2.5 3.4 7.7 8.4
Europe 23.3 26.6 40.3 29.7 27.9 23.8
US - 1.8 13.8 21.8 21.8 20.9
Russia 3.2 4.8 6.3 9.3 9.2 2.2
Source: Angus Maddison, Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, OECD,
Paris, 1998
Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
