Re: Making a Killing from Hunger
Hi All,
Despite the fact of having written in my thesis (1985) (*) that just
like History according to Karl Marx is the history of class struggle,
our economy is the economics of transfering incomes from household
to firms, and that up to the point where all incomes are transfered
and the the world stops (really the capitalists' least of worries), I
still think that our friend Brian has fallen of the edge here.
In what ressembles so much a conspiracy theory that it is one
(**), he endorses the rickety combination of the latest version
of the capitalists need ever fresh terrains of endocolonialst
exploitation blame game to that very old cow (Roman history anyone?)
'the speculators did it' explanation. The whole thing has some
traction, but it won't get us all the way over the hill.
The current food squeeze looks like, and has indeed all the
frightening potential to become, a remake of the Great Bengal Famine
of 1943. In this largely unknown biggest tragedy of WWII, where
almost as many people perished as in the Nazi death camps, the
shortfall of grain avaibility as opposed to demand was less than
1,5%, yet prices, fed by speculation and hoarding trebled, before
spiralling out of control (and like one century earlier in Ireland,
the British overlords did nothing to alleviate the situation, or
rather the contrary. Blame my Gallic temper for seeing some kind
of 'perfide Albion' consistent characteristic here - continued in
our times, globaly ruled by a TINA Anglo-Saxon logic). And pace the
incompressible intellectual avantgardists in our midst, the starving
will _not_ revolt, simply because starving people are simply too weak
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