Citation

Chossudovsky M. Int. J. Health Serv. 1979; 9(1): 61-75.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Baywood Publishing)

DOI

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PMID

422298

Abstract

This is a study of the interrelationships among state violence, human rights, and the pattern of capital accumulation in Third World countries. Center capitalism, welfare statism, and liberal sociodemocracy have evolved in Western capitalist countries. Less developed countries with which they do business have, on the other hand, evolved systems of poverty politics and economic repression. Repressive authoritarian State measures are the means by which intensive exploitation of Third World labor is achieved. Political repression controls the real wages of labor in these countries, thereby maintaining them as good business partners for the Western capitalist countries. The political system in Third World countries concentrates on the use of nonrenewable human labor, as compared with Western labor systems where educational improvement is stressed. Health and educational services are provided in these countries only to maintain the status quo or to maintain the labor force at subsistence levels.

Language: en