The Advance Of Capitalism

The advance of capitalism is inevitable and one of the most recent examples of this is the development of Ethiopia. 'It's government's controversial plan to take over vast swathes of ancestral land, home to around 100,000 indigenous pastoralists, and convert it into a major centre for commercial agriculture, where foreign agribusinesses and government plantations would raise cash crops such as sugar and palm oil.' (BBC News, 6 January) Here, where palaeontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains on earth, some ancient ways of life cling on, but sentiment plays no part in capitalism ruthless drive for more and more profits. RD