05.31.09
Open veins of Latin America
Have been reading the book Chavez gave to Obama, a new edition from Monthly Review: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano
A powerful account of the economic history of Latin America, which makes for dismal reading indeed. Chavez’ gesture was excellent.
It is interesting to look at the Amazon reviews: the book received over sixty postive reviews, not surprising. But also ca. fifty one-star reviews, which I find surprising, even given the small amount of ‘leftist’ confusion in the text which is mostly a factual history of the depredations perpetrated on Latin America over two centuries.
It resembles the one-star treatment given to anti-Darwinism books.
And there is certainly a connection: the Darwin paradigm is very cleverly concealed economic ideology, plus an ‘ethical neutralizer’ for those who confront the ethical/economic dimension of capitalism and can’t do that without a disguised ‘nihilist’ ideology to be able to function in the ‘dog eat dog’ realm.
Time to cashier this cozy arrangement between economic propaganda and Darwinian pseudo-science sanitized by Darwinian ‘liberal’ dupes, and Marxist idiots who are as bad on Darwinism as the capitalists.
A nasty surprise comes at the end of this American spree: the same capitalists who exploited Latin America care little for the American population and will cheerfully see them sold into poverty as the capitalist center of gravity shifts.