Re: population: real problem, or capitalist plot? (fwd)

>On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote:

> 
> Richard,
> 
> It is very unfair to call Andy dogmatic here. What Andy is concerned as of
> so far (as much as I do and some others) are hidden political agendas
> behind population control strategies (pro and anti). We folks are not
> living in the ideal world; we are living in the real world where
> scientific knowledge is subject to all sorts of ideological manipulation. 
> I think we Marxists should all share some critical concern about why
> over-population problem is constantly presented as a problem of the third
> world in such a way to control people over there. This is not to suggest
> that over-population problem is a myth or has no real existence. On the
> contrary, we have been saying that it has a _real_ basis, and this basis
> has its roots in capitalist world system and the scientific enterprise
> built to reproduce this system. 

>Mine-

>The quite reasonable position you stake out was bombastically attacked by
>Andy, who claims that there is no such thing as overpopulation, and
>therefore, of course, no such thing as an overpopulation problem.  (You
>shouldn't be so protective and quick to include him in your royal "we" on
>the basis of the ideological buzz words he uses.)

Richard, please do not misrepresent my situation here. There is a BIG,
BIG, BIG difference between being supportive of population control
strategies imposed by the capitalist state, and believing in principle
that women should have free access to contraception, birth control and
abortion. The second right should be guarenteed and protected since it is
a basic human right. To my knowledge, Andy repeated this hundred times.
Like Andy, I too strongly object the use of population control
policies for the *hidden* purposes of racial and gender reorganization of
our societies.

Mine Doyran
SUNY/Albany

>Richard