[ExI] How slow is capitalism?

Jones Murphy morphy at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Apr 29 09:30:35 UTC 2011


You don't object to my views, but they are propaganda? Would you make
up your mind?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
> --
> Stefano Vaj
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