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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: suburbia

>So do you have some good comparative statistics re life expectancy,
>stillbirths, etc. in traditional versus "modern" societies.
>And do you think that we should not violently reconstruct traditional
>societies by banning such practices as binding women's feet,
>clitoral mutilation, widows joyously throwing themselves on hubbies funeral
>pyre  etc.etc.etc.
>
>     Cheers, Ken Hanly

This argument is identical to the one made by Eduard Bernstein in defense
of colonialism.

Louis Proyect
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