Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New Street Photos from Hanoi.
From: Matthew Powell <mlpowell@directvinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 02:56:55 -0500

On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 11:22 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> Liberal denial does not change the landscape.

For every photograph of 'Communist' (though that term's a bit misleading 
in and of itself) poverty, you can find a photo of third-world poverty 
that we've been behind.

A factory worker slaving away under Chinese oppression is no better off 
than a worker slaving away to make Nike shoes in Thailand or Malaysia.

Both authoritarian communism and capitalism come down to the same 
thing - one group making money off anothers' sweat. As the French put 
it - "we shall not be free until the last capitalist is hung with the 
guts of the last bureaucrat."

> Roland Smith
> Oakland, California

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