Re: Russia’s economy

On May 9, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:

It was bourgeois democracies that reduced Africa to its present status. It was a bourgeois democracy that superintended the
genocide of Indians in the u.s. It was a bourgeois democracy that that created the situation summarzied in the phrase, “the open veins of Latin America.”

How democratic were the countries that colonized Africa and Latin
America, actually? They were capitalist, but how widespread was the
franchise? This is a real question, not some rhetorical trick.

Doug

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