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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America's role in world hunger & red spread
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 10:07:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 10:07:40 1985
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In article <317@SCIRTP.UUCP> todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes:

[article concerning how market structure in Guatemala is used to exploit the
 indians has been excised]

>This seems to be addressing a different cause of poverty and hunger in
>third world countries than the original posting. The original posting
>dealt with land owned and controlled by agribusinesses, while this
>article deals with land owned by "locals." But getting back to your
>posting, what is responsible for this exploitative structure in the
>first place? I'd like to hear more.

Oh, it's quite clear that there is a rigid class structure drawn up on racial
grounds (at least in Guatamala).  I think people should consider broader
possibilities in trying to determine what we should do.  One thing that we
in this country tend to forget is that a boycott isn't necessarily anything
more than pressure to do something about the boycott.  Nor must it be assumed
that the reaction will be rational.  In the face of the entire western world
backing away from the conflagration which seems almost inevitable in South
Africa, the government there seems determined to protect their system at any
cost to themselves.  One cannot fight against such folly.

The other point of my article was that people should remember that oppression
is generally systematic.  Acting on one form of opression often may simply
result in increased pressure from another form.

Charley Wingate