On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Max B. Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is plenty of immiseration in the Third World, and in pockets of the > U.S., but I don't think that can be a central radical criticism. For one, > people in > that circumstance aren't in much shape to do anything positive about it.
Why not? Isn't that where revolutions start? > More to the point is the gap between what people expect and what they get, > which is more about inequality, not absolute deprivation or literal > starvation. A > problem is that people use terminology about absolute poverty when they are > really talking > about inequality (relative poverty). Why is this more important than absolute poverty? -raghu. -- 2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
