Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It is important not to rely on too literal an interpretation of this bit of
> "Marxish" doctrine. Impoverishment has to be seen in a dialectical manner.

In other words, "impoverishment" is simply not happening.

> we will be facing a general political and economic situation
> where "impoverishment" does not quite describe the reality. There will
> instead be 3 distinct socio-economic realities:
>
> 1. The imperialist countries will continue as they have since WWII, fraying
> around the edges but not undergoing any kind of crisis in the true Marxist
> sense. Workers in the US, Japan and Western Europe will not be interested
> in alternatives to the system.

That's one billion people.

> 2. The third world will consist of pockets of trade, commerce and
> industrialization not unlike the East Coast development zones in China..

That's three billion people.

> 3. The third world will also be host to very large sections of completely
> disenfranchised peasants and subproletarians...

That's two billion people.

Now ideas about how to move category (3) into category (2) and
category (2) into category (1) would be helpful.