Encyclopaedia of Radical Political Economy (ERPE) Selected excerpts. Prof. N.I. Lobachevsky and Takei Crapulinski (eds) Politics Democrat Party. Main source of U.S. military agression since 1850. (See also Robert Dole.) Republican Party. Lesser of two evils. (See also Pat Buchanan and objective anti-imperialism.) German Social Democratic Party. Neo-nazi formation. British Labor Party. Even worse. Yeltsin, Boris. Progressive Russian nationalist. (See also Laurent Kabila.) War and Peace Use of force by NATO. Moral outrage and harbinger of barbarism. Ethnic cleansing. When practiced by neo-socialist regimes and formations, a complex problem of political economy. Bombing of Chinese embassy by NATO. Two deaths provoked mass demonstrations throughout Peoples Republic of China. Bombing of Belgrade and ethnic cleansing in Kosova. Thousands of deaths provoked mass indifference in Peoples Republic of China. Kosovar victims of Serb regime, news reports. Tendentious reiteration of NATO policy. Casualties of NATO bombing, news reports. Key to anti-imperialist consciousness. Socialism Yugoslavia. Federation of Balkan nationalities. After World War II, supported by Western imperialism as bulwark against Soviet Union. Market-oriented economic system, thoroughly penetrated by Western capital. Underwent rapid socialist transformation in March of 1999. (See also Peoples Republic of China.) Blocks strategic imperialist invasion route to East. (N.B., W. Churchill: "Serbia is a dagger pointed at the heart of Macedonia.") Peoples Republic of China. Disinterested protector of Tibet, Sinkiang (sp?), Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Kampuchea. Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Used military force to violate national sovereignty of Democratic Kampuchea. Armed Struggle Kosova Liberation Army. Terrorist organization implicated in international drug traffic. FARC. Guerilla liberation force; defender of Colombian peasants implicated in international drug traffic. Shining Path. Not as bad as Pol Pot. House Committee on Intelligence, Republican majority. Source of malicious and inaccurate information about left-wing liberation forces throughout the world, but reliable source of information on Kosova Liberation Army. Ecology Gray whale. Endangered species, except when hunted by indigenous peoples. Prone to suicidal tendencies. Tornado. Extreme weather disturbance originating in NATO policy. Possible complicity of Tony Blair. Global warming. Crisis that will become acute after everyone reading this is dead. (See also Social Security; crisis of capitalism.) Economics Crash. Syns. 'bubble bursting,' 'The day the shit came down.' Decline of Dow Jones Index of 1.5%. (See also Mark Jones.) Crisis of capitalism. Occurs approximately every ten days. (See also crash; millenarianism.) Mark Jones. Wagered case of lagavullin that Dow would break 3,000 on or before September 15, 1999. Military Keynesianism. Military spending increase. Or decrease. Lump of Labor. Forgotten technical problem in economics. Old Foggey. [Hist.] affectionate reference to lectures of either Prof. J. Devine or M. Perelman (disputed by historians).
