From: Alan Cairns 

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:43:24 -0800, Randall Parker  wrote:


>The Marshall Plan was, at best, an exception to the rule of what
>normally happens with aid to poor countries. So, if the Marshall Plan
>really did work as well as was claimed (hard to tell since we have to
>rely on histories written by liberals) why is it an exception? Because
>Europe already had the institutions and culture that made
>industrialization possible in the first place.
>
Why do we "have to rely on histories written by liberals"? Surely
you're not claiming that every modern historian is a "liberal",
whatever that may be? Or is a "liberal" just anyone to the left
of Genghis Khan?

Maybe all history is bunk in your eyes.

Incidentally, EUrope was actually quite industrialized by the
'forties. Strangely enough, the industrial revolution began there, in
Britain.


Alan
alancairns{at}dccnet.com

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