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Internationalist Communist Forum
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#92 - How capitalism under-develops the world
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Feb 2012
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Capitalism is not part of the solution
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We can only conclude that this system of exploitation has to be halted before it's too late. The examples given should make it
clear that it is not "sustainable". Mahatma Gandhi is often quoted (and we apologise for doing the same, but this particular
quote does illustrate the problem). When asked, on the eve of independence, whether he thought India could follow the British
model of industrial development, he replied: "It took Britain half the resources of this planet to achieve its prosperity.
How many planets will India require for development?"
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Today, all the measures showing how poor countries are developing, not least the so-called millennium development goals, are
designed to hide poverty and exploitation. And when they show improvements - like the apparent fall in poverty reported by the
UN last year - whatever "growth" there may be, is inevitably restricted to a tiny minority, fuelling inequalities, if not
corruption - and resulting, not in the expansion of production but the actual destruction of resources, in new rivalries leading
to new conflicts - making this new so-called "growth" detrimental, if not malignant.
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After over a century of domination and countless failed attempts by nationalist movements to shake off the domination of the
imperialists, despair has reached such a point in many poor countries, that dying for beliefs which are 12 centuries old, and
even committing suicide in their name, has come to be seen as a means to fight this domination. This is how rotten to the core
capitalism has become. And yet there is a possible common future for the population of the whole world, together, utilising the
pooled resources of this rich and diverse planet of ours for our collective benefit. Of course, all of the artificial divisions
inherited from the past would have to be removed by the populations working together democratically, for once. The only
condition for this would be the overthrow of the system of profit-making, of capitalism itself, and its replacement with a
system based on the rational use of all human and material resources for the benefit of all. Of course, that would mean
embarking on the path to communism. But this is the only way to a sustainable future using the one single planet we've got, for
the time being.
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