At 08:03 18/05/2007, Sartesian wrote:
This, the imposition of crops in terrain not exactly suitable, is
critical- and an index to the inadequacy, and dominance, of the world
markets regarding human needs. Similar process goes on in Africa.
In a very real sense, the problem is not that modern, advanced
capitalism has imposed or maintained "underdevelopment" of the domestic
market, and the prospects for "national capitalism," but that the needs
of modern capitalism, of the world market, are in fact so physically and
socially unsuited for any type of development in so many areas of the
world.
It is this combination of "natural" and "social" inadequacy that is the
simultaneously the birthmark, the maturation, and the decay of world
market.
Capitalism in a nutshell, (and in the production of nuts).
If I remember correctly (no sure thing these days), wheat really doesn't
do well in the tropical and semi-tropical soil and climate of Venezuela-
corn does much better.
The latter is a point made in the past by Chavez, stressing the need
to go back to traditional diets-- arepas rather than McDonalds, pasta
(all those Italian immigrants!), etc-- and in a much more developed
way by Carlos Lanz (known outside mainly as current president of
ALCASA but a consistent ideological leader of the process) in a work
calling for a cultural revolution a few years ago.
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
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