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Re: The Limits To Growth



On 20 Nov 96 12:46:08 +0000, "Don Dale" <dale@princeton.edu> wrote:

> >> This is false.  Genocide is the result not of any "economism,"
> >> whatever that may be, but of reversion to pre-economic racisms. In
> >> Rwanda as in Germany, it is the expression of ancient tribalism.
> >>  
> >>                                      -dlj.
> > 
> >This is simply not correct, sorry.  The problem in Bosnia, Rwanda, 
> >Burundi, Azerbajan, Los Angeles and many other places is that a 
> >relatively affluent minority rules.  As in the French and Russian 
> >revolutions, a point comes when the majority revolts and sets about
> >killing off the minority.  This is political economics, not tribalism.
> >The tribal differences are historic and lie behind the minority rule 
> >but are not the cause of the revolt.
> 
> Los Angeles?  *That* was a class revolt?
> 
> So Damian Williams threw his brick at the head of Reginald Denny because
> the truck driver was a rich man?
> 
A person is not a "class."  I know nothing of the details of the participants
in this anecdote.

And I wouldn't pursue the point except for its importance.  If Damian Williams
had been a truck driver I doubt very much that he would have hurled the 
brick, nor is it likely he would have been on the street at that time.  If Damien
Williams had been a member of the wealthy class of the black tribe he would
not have been there hurling bricks.

Wealth tribes do not hurl bricks.  They have more powerful weapons.

The anger of blacks (the anger of Latinos will be more significant) does not
come from tribalism.  It comes from perceived economic oppression.  From 
that follows many things that are not rational; burning the black neighborhood
for example; belief in the innocence of O. J. Simpson for another.

If the blacks were as prosperous as some of the Asiatic minority tribes they
would not feel a need to hurl bricks and burn down their town.

Incidentally, the burning was often directed toward economic targets: stores
owned by the perceived-to-be-oppressive majority.  It was economic, not
tribal.

To avoid "tribal" warfare, as some would like to think it is, we must deal
with economic inequality between classes.  And the way to start doing this 
is NOT to build more prisons, but to provide equal education, and to a degree 
superior education to catch up from an oppressed beginning.




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