toyin,
please, what does "mature social system" mean?
was it that maturity that gave us colonialism, imperialism, genocide??
i prefer cesaire's reading of the west, its dependency on fascism.
i won't summarize his point, but simply ask, again, how can you see some
higher social system in a region whose deployment of power has been to
subordinate and exploit the resources of the rest of the world
and if it weren't crystal clear that that is the story of the 20th
century, i beg you to consider the depredations of neoliberal capitalist
globalization.
call on hardt, call on negri!
i evoke the spirit of gloria emeagwali here!! i know she won't fail me.
ken
On 11/25/12 8:36 PM, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU wrote:
> This is so because, to a greater or lesser degree between various
> Western countries, it has achieved the most mature social systems on
> the planet right now, allied to the highest degree of enablement for
> those within its borders than other societies have.
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