tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post932605894349185211..comments2024-03-28T09:46:24.020+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : Britain's disastrous legacy to her colonies Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-46003609736706415782013-04-16T09:24:39.220+03:002013-04-16T09:24:39.220+03:00This is an interesting discussion. Worth contempla...This is an interesting discussion. Worth contemplating. Personally may I say thanks to the commenters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-77044364628217558792013-04-14T00:15:17.653+03:002013-04-14T00:15:17.653+03:00You should read the book "King Leopold's ...You should read the book "King Leopold's Ghost." The Eelgians built roads and canals in the Congo, but also murdered, beheaded, robbed and enslaved the inhabitants. When they left abruptly and under extreme duress they had admitted fewer than 20 Congolese to university. A mixed legacy at best...not that the inheritors of the Congo have done a great job running it by any means.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-33687548891244471852013-04-13T11:27:37.915+03:002013-04-13T11:27:37.915+03:00Arjun Sen, you're the first person I hear say ...Arjun Sen, you're the first person I hear say what I've long believed to be true. "The root social causes of the failures of all systems are the same tools that undermine them in each and every case." Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-5920938313295632902013-04-13T11:15:26.474+03:002013-04-13T11:15:26.474+03:00it isn't socialism that was disastrous, it was...it isn't socialism that was disastrous, it was tribalism and corruption. If the world was run by experts who were made accountable for how they did their jobs, including, of course, political leaders, almost any type of system could be made to work according to its own purposes. India's problems are related to religious hatreds, caste and class hatred and corruption. Those factors are far bigger than any political or economic programme or ideology and outweigh them completely. Capitalist Globalisation has created a monster of economic divide and frustration in India. In Tanzania Nyerere built up a policy of self-relianced egalitarian development and it certainly failed but Nyerere was a good man in a world of very few good men at the top and his system was defeated by corruption and a lack of capital investment. Tanzanian social inequities are actually worse now that it's growing faster under capitalism than it was in Nyerere's day. Corruption, greed, cronyism, amateurism and inequalities are the cancers at the root of all the political and economic systems at work. If this were not true, Britain would not be facing a double-dip recession, a soverign debt of £1.3 trillion or 89% of GDP, and a downgrading of Moody's to Aa1. Thatcherism and Reaganism were the root cause of the deregulation and unleashing of undirected and unregulated market forces that created this monser hump and turned Britain into a hobbling hunchback. If socialism is to be pilloried as a failure, fine, but let the pot not call the kettle black. The root social causes of the failures of all systems are the same tools that undermine them in each and every case. Arjun Sen Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com