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In reply to the discussion: The corporate epidemic and meth. [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)25. a bit different. small-scale moonshining always existed in backwoods locales, for local use, &
wasn't controlled by big capital -- it was actually to evade paying big capital prices (read the history of the liquor industry in the US). prohibition changed that situation -- in the same way the 'war on drugs' did. It turned a lot of firepower against relatively innocuous small-scale local producers, & the ultimate beneficiary was big capital.
ghettoization is about the divestment of large capital from geographic regions and its replacement with an underground criminal economy that can also be traced back to big capital.
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I'd heard there was a way to make the product nearly impossible to use in a meth lab
KamaAina
May 2013
#8
kr. it's been my belief for a while that areas of high unemployment are deliberately
HiPointDem
May 2013
#9
interesting. i looked up the book & found you can read excerpts online. hells angels/california
HiPointDem
May 2013
#21
K&R Not just the jobs but the helpless hopelessness and dissatisfaction their loss brings.
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#10
Great book. I read it awhile ago. Highly recommend. My home state of Montana was hit hard by meth
LiberalLoner
May 2013
#12
Another region that has been hit is one that never had the infrastructure you mentioned
loyalsister
May 2013
#17
a bit different. small-scale moonshining always existed in backwoods locales, for local use, &
HiPointDem
May 2013
#25