#maoism

A bike ride to work.

"The World Bank and IMF are supposed to assist nations in their development. What actually happens is another story. The World Bank will lend money to this or that country to finance a huge dam project that displaces thousands of families while providing cheap irrigation for export agriculture and cheap power for a private company. Or a poor country may borrow from the World Bank to build up some aspect of its economy. Should it be unable to pay back the heavy interest because of declining export sales or some other reason, it most borrow again, this time from the IMF. But the IMF imposes a 'structural adjustment programme' (SAP), requiring debtor countries to grant tax breaks to the transnational corporations, reduce local wages, and make no attempt to protect native enterprises from foreign imports and foreign takeovers.

In accordance with SAP rulings, the debtor nations are pressured to privatise their economies, selling at scandalously low prices their state-owned mines, railroads, and utilities to transnational corporations. They are forced to open their forests to clear-cutting and their lands to strip mining, without regard to the ecological damage done. The debtor nations also must reduce or eliminate subsidies for health, education, transportation, and food, spending less on public needs in order to have more money to meet debt payments. So it is that throughout the Third World, real wages have declined, and national debts have soared to the point at which debt payments absorb almost all of the poorer countries' export earnings—leaving the debtor even less able to provide for the minimal needs of its population."

-Well, since we're all gonna die, there is one more secret I need to share with you:

I did not care for Maoism.

- WHAT

- Did not care for Mao Zedong thought.

- How can you even say that??

- Didn't like it.

- Peter it's so good! It's like the perfect strain of marxism!

- That's what everyone always says! Everyone always sa-

- Maria sison, Kamal Dahal, I mean you never see... MAO ZEDONG!!

- Fine revolutionary; did not care for his statesmanship.

- Why not?

- Couldn't get into him.

- Explain yourself, what didn't you like about him?

- He insists upon himself, Lois.

- what..?

- He insists upon himself.

- What does it even mean..?

- IT'S BECAUSE HE HAS VALID POLICIES TO MAKE HE'S INSISTANT!!

- He takes forever getting in; spends like 2 and a half decades... You know I can't even finish researching his policies, I've never even got the cultural revolution

- YOU HAVEN'T UNDERSTOOD THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION?!

- Well how can you say you don't like it if you haven't even given it a chance??

- I agree with Stewie, it's not really fair.

- I have tried multiple times to get through his tenure, and I get to the time he starts the anti-rightist campaign-

- Yeah, it's a great policy

- It's not a great policy! I have no idea what he's talking about, it's like he's speaking a different language, that's when I lose interest and i-

- HE'S SPEAKING CHINESE!!

- You know Peter, the language he's speaking is the language of liberation, something you don't understand.

- I am a dengist. That's my answer to that statement

- Exactly.

- Well there you go.

- Whatever...