Comments on: Blaming Capitalism http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/blaming-capitalism/ Voices from the Indian Blogosphere Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:05:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: SMH http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/blaming-capitalism/comment-page-1/#comment-7871 SMH Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:38 +0000 http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/development/blaming-capitalism/#comment-7871 In his article he writes, "The very founding of this party was a reaction to outsiders (South Indians) allegedly taking over Mumbai and destroying its Marathi character. Raj is merely playing the game his uncles has perfected over a life time of politics of hatred. How does capitalism explain this continuing harping on the ‘’son of the soil”?" i.e. ignores the fact the SS got its start breaking the backs of the labor unions. He also writes, "However, due to the perverse belief that market cannot provide solutions to housing needs of urban poor"... I would be interested in learning more about examples of large-scale market-provided non-shanty housing for the urban poor. In his article he writes, “The very founding of this party was a reaction to outsiders (South Indians) allegedly taking over Mumbai and destroying its Marathi character. Raj is merely playing the game his uncles has perfected over a life time of politics of hatred. How does capitalism explain this continuing harping on the ‘’son of the soil”?”

i.e. ignores the fact the SS got its start breaking the backs of the labor unions.

He also writes, “However, due to the perverse belief that market cannot provide solutions to housing needs of urban poor”… I would be interested in learning more about examples of large-scale market-provided non-shanty housing for the urban poor.

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