Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Better DEAD than RED Message-ID: <2091@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 12:32:02 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2091 Posted: Mon Jun 24 12:32:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 02:47:12 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP> <5709@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 . . . > Then how do you explain tiny Western armies conquering enormous existing > nations, some of them moderately sophisticated? My point was that the > West's steep climb in technology and standard of living started long before > colonialism existed, and was a prerequisite for colonialism rather than > vice-versa. I don't deny that colonialism constitutes trampling, but this > was an effect, not a fundamental cause, of Western growth. ^^^^^^ > -- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry It was a requirement of perpetuating the system.