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Re: The Limits To Growth



masonc@ix.netcom.com (Mason A. Clark) wrote:

>On 15 Nov 1996 18:38:59 GMT, dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote:
>
>> bg364@torfree.net (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
>> >Precisely my point. Genocide has zero economic benefit. But the
>> >"economism" of people like you is what brings this about. 
>>  
>> 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.
 
This is clear as mud.  I still don't know what the hell Yuri's
economism is, but Mason's "political economics" has nothing to do with
politics and economics.  It is just another word for tribalism as far
as I can see from the, uh, explanation above.
 
                                   -dlj.



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