THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, September 17, 1994 TAG: 9409160003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Your headline (news, Sept. 9) asks ``Is Capitalism killing Russians?'' Why should it be any different in Russia?
The vast majority of the world's population lives in Third World countries where the ``free market,'' with the help of the World Bank, enforces extreme poverty, malnutrition, disease, high infant mortality and unsafe working conditions with wages an animal couldn't live on. Capitalism is killing them.
Many U.S. citizens are also trapped in cycles of poverty and exploitation. Thousands die each year from workplace injuries that could have been prevented but for greed. As for me, I work several jobs, each part time with no benefits and no insurance, ever haunted by the specter of underemployment, hunger, homelessness and illness.
Yes, capitalism is no doubt killing Russians. It is killing us as well!
ALBERT PARSONS
Norfolk, Sept. 9, 1994 by CNB