roachboy

seaver:

programs of food exportation are not--ARE NOT--done out of the goodness of any collective heart--they are very much about dealing with the american agricultural overproduction--which has lots to do with techological regimes, patterns of increasingly centralized ownership/organization, monocropping, etc...overall choices about how agriculture is organized that use economies of scale to wipe out other types of production.

i dont really care if you find something superficially annoying about what i am saying--do some research----dont take what i am saying at face value or as definitive----this is a board----obviously the complete story will not be jammed onto it--but you can try to figure it out.

with reference to the southern hemisphere (and food aid always involves particular geopolitical situations at the least), there is no way--no way--to separate food aid from the imf/world bank/structural adjustment/neoliberal ideology context.
try it and you will hamstring yourself, see nothing, argue about nothing except sad little illusions generated by the idea that everyone and everything can be understood on the basis of indivudal motivations--a particularly bourgeois american tic---which is maybe interesting as a reflection of a particular psychological comportment on your part, but which says nothing--nothing at all---about what you purport to address.

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