Re: [Marxism] Not 'RoP' but '% of total profits' - duh. Re: US profitscollapse in 4th qtr

[sabocat59@xxxxxxx]

S. Artesian wrote:

no part or whole of the bureaucracy successfully resolved that problem, with 
what 33% (?) of the population still tethered to agricultural production by the 
1980s (those who think China is more than a paper dragon need to keep the 
crucial role of agricultural productivity in focus as 2/3 of China's population 
is bound to the countryside with agricultural productivity a pathetic fraction 
of the US measure)
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As a side note, shouldn't we reconsider the stageist and developmentalist 
framework presupposed above? 

Isn't it high time to reconceptualize what it means to be an advanced society?

Given the ecological crisis, having two-thirds of the population of China 
engaged in sustainable agriculture is not necessarily a bad thing, while we 
here in the USA could use many more organic farms than exist currently. Having 
so much of the population alienated from the land puts us at a distinct 
disadvantage. 

We could learn much from the example of Cuba in that respect. So could China. 

Greg McDonald
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