Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Yes, you did put quotation marks around progress in your original post as >well. What is striking about the present state of capitalist 'progress' is, >though, that capitalism seems to be to a certain extent doing away with >even the ideology of 'progress' for many parts of Africa, Yugoslavia, >Russia, and elsewhere. Even the corporate press are quite open about the >NATO intention of making Kosovo a Euro/American protectorate (an unabashed >declaration of colonialism), for instance. In other words, regress seems to >be spoken of simply as regress, not as an inevitable cost of 'progress.' Oh, but the protectorate would be in the name of "civilized Western values," because as everyone knows the people of the Balkans are only marginally white. And structural adjustment too is imposed in the name of progress. The bourgeoisie has been quite adept in rebranding 19th century economic and social policy as forward looking, and welfare state and developmentalist interventions as backward-looking. Doug
