[ExI] How slow is capitalism?

[Stefano Vaj]

On 29 April 2011 05:51, Jones Murphy <morphy at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> The aggregate wealth in oil-rich Libya is much smaller than that of,
> for example, tiny Singapore, which has a smaller population and no
> oil. What you are saying is just completely false, about Gaddafi
> building up real wealth in Libya. Poverty and frustration are big
> motivators for the violent opposition which has exploded against
> Gaddafi and similar dictators across the Arab world. Western
> politicians certainly can be extremely corrupt, e.g. Italy's
> Berlusconi.

I shall be the last to object to that, but are you getting your views
on international politics straight out of US propaganda agencies? :-)

One would have thought that after the end of the Cold War such
black-and-white views of the world had gone out of fashion...

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Stefano Vaj