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or is it a global class struggle? - (statistics)
by g kohler
27 November 2001 00:20 UTC
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if one examines the SES (socio-economic status) of the various players (killers) involved in the current war, one wonders wether, apart from the animosities Christian-Moslem-Jew, this conflict should be more properly understood as an armed phase of global class conflict ??? (like Roman empire versus Spartacus? or, German princes versus peasants - 16th c.?) - see, the following statistics --
 
 
source: World Bank. World Development Report 2000. Chapter 12a Social Indicators, page 274-275 and page 316.
           
_______________GNP per capita 1999
__________________(US dollars)
 
USA___________________30,600   
Germany_______________25,350   
France________________23,480   
United Kingdom________22,640   
 
Israel_________________9,266 or more - WB estimate - note h in source
Kuwait_________________9,266 or more - WB estimate - note h in source   
Qatar__________________9,266 or more - WB estimate - note e , p. 316
United Arab Emirates___9,266 or more - WB estimate - note e , p.316
 
Oman___________________2,996-9,265 --- WB estimate - note d , p.316
Libya _________________2,996-9,265 --- WB estimate - note d , p.316
Bahrain________________2,996-9,265 --- WB estimate - note d , p. 316
Saudi Arabia___________2,996-9,265 --- WB estimate - note i in source
Lebanon________________3,700   
Turkey_________________2,900   
 
Iran___________________1,760   
Iraq_____________________756-2,995 --- WB estimate - note g , p 316
West Bank and Gaza_____1,610   
Jordan_________________1,500   
Egypt__________________1,400   
Kazakhstan_____________1,230   
Syrian Arab Republic_____970   
 
Uzbekistan_______________720   
Turkmenistan_____________660   
Georgia__________________620   
Armenia__________________490   
Pakistan_________________470   
Afghanistan______________755 or less -- WB estimate - note c ,p.316
Yemen, Rep.______________350   
Kyrgyz Republic__________300   
Tajikistan_______________290   
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