Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
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Category: Food&Drink • Health
Posted on: August 28, 2007 11:06 AM, by EJGili
China plies its trade, apparently without regard for the things that make commerce not only dependable but possible: respect for intellectual property, food and drug purity, and basic product safety. With each tawdry revelation, China's brand of capitalism looks increasingly menacing and foreign to our own sensibilities. That's a tempting way to see things, but wrong. Does anyone recall America's expansionist period of the 1800s and subsequent empire building abroad. ( Boston Globe)
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Does anyone recall America's expansionist period of the 1800s and subsequent empire building abroad.
Not personally, but when I saw "China's brand of capitalism looks increasingly..." in the teaser, I immediately completed the sentence with "like the 19th century". This is the capitalism Marx was talking about.
It's also the joy of globalisation - you don't have to go back to the 19th C to enjoy the benefits of laissez-faire capitalism, you just need to outsource to China. Of course, there's a reason that sort of thing didn't last over here...
Posted by: Dunc | August 28, 2007 11:37 AM