Re: Re: non-capitalist development

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Essentially, this is the same kind of argument being made by defenders of
> > capitalism in this discussion. They say that things are getting better in
> > the third world. Look at life expectancy figures. They are better than they
> > were 100 years ago. Isn't that progress? Why disrupt this march forward
> > with ill-advised attempts to alter the economic system, which might lead to
> > Pol Pot or Stalin.
>
> Who exactly has made this argument? Not even Brad De Long, really.

Excuse me...

Let me point out that out there I am known as a fuzzy-headed
left-wing utopian, a believer in world peace through world law,  who
has a touching but naive faith in the effectiveness of governments
and the possibilities for collective action.

That is, that's what I'm seen as by the people who don't think I'm a
socialist who wants to confiscate all their hard-earned wealth and
give it to the undeserving poor in order to increase my personal
power as a potential bureaucrat...


Brad DeLong