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The US ruling class’ mad hostility to Putin arises in part from the fact that he scuppered the Clinton administration’s plans to turn post-Soviet Russia into a Third World country, a supplier of raw materials, controlled by foreign (mainly US) capital (vide <https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/ <https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/>>). And to see what has happened in China in the generation since Tiananmen Square, makes it difficult to deny economic development there. It’s those 'economic developments' that American capitalism finds so threatening - and is willing to kill a lot of people to counter. One might say that’s been clear since Halford Mackinder - and in the USG, since the Open Door Policy... —CGE > On Jul 27, 2017, at 2:04 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > On 7/27/17 2:40 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: >> As they have all along, the 1% demand policies that retard Eurasian economic >> development and integration, which they (rightly) see as a threat to the >> hegemony of the US elite. > > Eurasian economic development? What a joke. There is no such thing as > "economic development" under capitalism. This is the Marxism list, not the > import-substitution, post-Keynesian mailing list--in case you hadn't noticed. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
