Comments on: Politically correct. Yes. Realistic? No http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html All of us against the machine Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:09:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ry http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html/comment-page-1#comment-16312 ry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html#comment-16312 <p>This reading of the report sounds a lot like JRobb. I wonder what he makes of it.</p> This reading of the report sounds a lot like JRobb. I wonder what he makes of it.

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html/comment-page-1#comment-16313 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html#comment-16313 <p>ry -- Good catch on the Robbite tone! The idea of a revolutionary petite bourgeoisie is bizarre in Marxist theory unless one is opposing an agrarian oligopoly, but fits well with the idea of decentralized balance-of-power realism that Robb holds too. [1]<br /> <br /> I don't check up on Robb much (the combination of gloom and balance-of-power-realism makes him generally predictable, but please comment if he addresses the issue!<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/02/05/working-definition-of-global-guerrillas-try-2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/02/05/working-definition-of-global-guerrillas-try-2.html</a></p> ry — Good catch on the Robbite tone! The idea of a revolutionary petite bourgeoisie is bizarre in Marxist theory unless one is opposing an agrarian oligopoly, but fits well with the idea of decentralized balance-of-power realism that Robb holds too. [1]

I don't check up on Robb much (the combination of gloom and balance-of-power-realism makes him generally predictable, but please comment if he addresses the issue!

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/02/05/working-definition-of-global-guerrillas-try-2.html

]]> By: Dexter Trask http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html/comment-page-1#comment-16314 Dexter Trask Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/09/politically-correct-yes-realistic-no.html#comment-16314 <p>Hmm, the Guardian's editors have been asleep at the wheel again: "The global population is likely to grow to 8.5bn in 2035, with less developed countries accounting for 98% of that."<br /> <br /> After my initial double-take, I was sure that the author did not mean that the population of more-developed countries would be only be 170 million (the US could have well over 400 million people by then, for example). Even if Mr. Norton-Taylor meant "with less-developed countries accounting for 98% of that growth," it's still an a muddy sentence.</p> Hmm, the Guardian's editors have been asleep at the wheel again: “The global population is likely to grow to 8.5bn in 2035, with less developed countries accounting for 98% of that.”

After my initial double-take, I was sure that the author did not mean that the population of more-developed countries would be only be 170 million (the US could have well over 400 million people by then, for example). Even if Mr. Norton-Taylor meant “with less-developed countries accounting for 98% of that growth,” it's still an a muddy sentence.

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