Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> Concerning the recent topic of war and the economy:
>
> In a NYT article of 28-Mar-1999, Thomas Friedman (Madeleine Albright's
> adviser) bluntly admits that "The hidden hand of the market will never work
> without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas,
> the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for
> Silicon Valley's technologies is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and
> Marine Corps." ( http://www.transnational.org/features/democracy.html )
>
> This is quite in contrast to the neoliberal party-line that the infamous
> "Invisible Hand" of the "Free Market" works _on its own_ because people
> like free trade so much...
>
> BTW, if anyone has the full NYT article handy, I'd be interested in it.
Well, this *is* a capitalist society. Go to the New York Times
web site, select Archives, and search on "hidden fist". You
can purchase a copy of this article: "A Manifesto for the Fast World",
online.
But the messge is not so new. I believe that a great deal of
force was needed to install the factory system in late-medieval
England, and, of course, the "Wobblies" (to cite one example)
in our own century were controlled by capitalist state organs
of force. There has never been a truly free market, for
thieves (et al.) are forcibly restrained from competing.
\brad mccormick
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