[PEN-L:27373] Re: LTV and income disparity

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the clarification of where you are coming from. See below.


At 28/06/02 22:21 +0530, Ulhas wrote:
> Chris Burford :
>
> > would also appreciate Ulhas Joglekar's thoughts on this, that may underlie
> > his questions.
>
> My question was in response to the following statement about the
> difficulties in creating an alliance in Chris Burford's previous post.
>
>  >What *is* difficult is the nature of the alliance between progressive
> >people in the imperialist west and the mass of people in the LDC's.
>
> One would have to understand contemporary politics in each LDC in concrete
> terms.

Of course. But I would expect to set that in a more general framework of an
understanding about different classes and strata, their alliances and their
differences, and their contadictory relationship with the main forces in
the world.


> I am not even an India expert. So the question of my talking about
> the "Third World" or Asian politics does not arise. But I don't see how
> "general law of capitalist accumulation" can help you here.


If no one thinks there is a problem that the third world is getting
progressively poorer in relative terms, then no theory will help at all.
Indeed any theory will be quite superfluous and misleading. But I think the
evidence is that the disparities are intensifying and I can see a broad
general reason related to Marx's law of value.

There is no point in trying to force a theory down some one else's throat
particularly on an email list. Nevetheless I obviously think these facts
and this analysis are important so I would appeal to other sympathetic
people to support it and deepen its relevance.


> Ulhas


Regards

Chris