tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179889273246968838.post8354893661615463115..comments2023-06-29T12:24:56.041+00:00Comments on nickleberry: Auschwitznickleberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761062811387660139noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179889273246968838.post-37933243433146695472007-09-11T06:25:00.000+00:002007-09-11T06:25:00.000+00:00I guess one has to be careful before comparing the...I guess one has to be careful before comparing the evils of the current capitalist system to the camps at Auschwitz. The camps were incredibly savage and inhuman constructions, directly aiming towards the extinction of particular groups of people.<BR/><BR/>Our current economic system does not have this overt aim. It is not fuelled by hatred, as such - although it generates plenty of hatred as a by product. The intense barbarity of the camps is incomparably greater than the ordinary experience of nearly all of the world population today. What's more, the camps were deliberately constructed to this end - as such, the two situations cannot be compared.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, the end result of the current economic system is undoubtedly awful for a vast number of people on this planet. The effects of poverty, especially the daily death rates due to malnutrition and preventable disease, far exceed what went on in those camps. And, given that these facts are well known and the mechanisms by which they are brought about are at least partially understood, one could assert that the current situation has been deliberately brought about. OK, the <B>aim</B> is not to increase child mortality, say - this is merely a side effect of doing business - but does this really amount to any material difference? You are quite right to ask the question...nickleberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13646341305720863750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2179889273246968838.post-52607050830581155302007-08-21T17:28:00.000+00:002007-08-21T17:28:00.000+00:00I remember reading If this is a Man many years ago...I remember reading If this is a Man many years ago, and crying for a couple of days afterwards. I'd forgotten that poem though. Being in India do you think we are doing this on a global scale now and not just in the camps?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com