On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Louis N Proyect wrote: > The Third World, as the > figures above show, has been in steep economic decline over the past > decade. Furthermore, the causes of the economic decline are endemic. But what about the 2.5 billion people of Thailand, Malaysia, Chile, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the vast subcontinents of India and China, all of which have seen enormous economic growth from 1985-95? Decline in capitalism is always relative to the productive forces being unleashed somewhere else in the world-system. -- Dennis