Double constructs
Exam Thought of the day
I've been studying about the World Bank for my corruption & governance module. Judging by their journals and reports, they seem like nice guys, with so many plans and strategies to help fight corruption in developing countries; lifting them out of poverty.
Then I turned to my IR module, and they painted World Bank (and IMF) in an entirely different light. These guys are basically suckers in a world conspiracy to make the poor poorer, and the rich more powerful, by siphoning all their resources and sending them into a viscious debt cycle.
Is this the new machiavellian robin hood?
Peripheral thought of the day
Thought bubbles are like germs. They coalesce and multiply in your mind, until it compels you to make some sort of an action. Unfortunately, during the thought-action process, you become stuck in some sort of an indeterminate reality; "should I or should I not?"
And when you finally transfer all those thoughts into words, all the thoughts are smashed by the invisible particles of reality. So somehow, the intention wasn't really conveyed in the best possible manner, and you have to squint your eyes to read between those lines, the words that underlined the thoughts.
posted by astral @ 11:41 PM
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4 Comments:
This reminds me of something i wrote!
To quote myself,
"The extermination of mankind begins with the extermination of germs"
(Baudrillard, 1987)
Seems that class struggles has become post modern...we are now talking about germs!
I prefer to be structural..
To quote myself,
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"
(Myself, 1967)
neh neh ni bu bu to me!
Harlow!
Maybe can read Joseph Stiglitz's books on 'Globalization and its Discontents', or 'The roaring nineties: Why we are paying the price for the greediest decade in history'.
Btw, Stigliz was the World Bank vice president and chief economist, before he quit in 1999. So I suppose his insider's insights are quite critical of WB's fight on poverty.
I suppose the bottom line for wb's credibility is essentially an int political economics marxist/radicalist perspective, whereby there exist a 'core' of develop countries and a 'periphery' side of developing countries. The WB, that exist in the realm of the core in our world system, needs the 'periphery' as the 'means of productions' to keep the money flowing into the 'core', hence the widening poverty gap.
hope that helps!
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