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Brian Paul Lilburn wrote:
> 
> Where there has been any improvement in the living-conditions and prospects
> of the ordinary people of africa, it has almost always been within the
> framework of the socialist tradition; even tho some help from the capitalist
> West has had to be accepted by those who see some form of socialism as the
> only way out of the mess the continent is in. I suppose Mandela would be
> one of those.

Readers should know that the so-called capitalist countries have played
their part in fostering despotism by denying African countries markets
for their goods. A couple of years ago France vetoed a proposed South
Africa-European Union Free Trade Agreement, because it would upset their
farmers. It is the products of greatest interest to developing countries
face the highest trade barriers: agricultural products and textiles.
There is nothing capitalist about these barriers to trade. 

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