Bill R:
Thanks for a very interesting post and the references, which I haven't had
time to check yet.
I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact quote, but somewhere in _Capital_
Marx (slightly tongue-in-cheek) quotes Adam Smith saying that all entrepôts
are barbaric; Marx's point being that mono
At 11:17 AM 21/04/2002 +0800, Grant wrote:
>That wasn't my contention, which is more accurately that except for actual
>formal/military imperialism, (e.g. Britain in India) "imperialist" and
>"imperialised" have always been poles on a notional axis, rather than being
>distinct and permanent thing
Grant Lee wrote:
> > HK and Singapore are entrepots, and
> > they are city-economies, which indicates the need to qualify the
> > significance of their numbers
>
> It seems to me that if no "western" state is very similar --- and I'm not
> convinced this is the case --- to HK and Singapore it wo
Bill B.:
> Hong Kong 65.772
> Saudi Arabia22.71.3
> s. Korea6.1 6.5
> Taiwan 7.8 14.7
> New Zealand 66.211
> Israel 11.16.8
> Spain
Louis:
> For the
> foreseeable future, places like Argentina and Venezuela are on the
> front lines. In places such as these, anti-imperialist consciousness
> will fuel the proletarian revolution just as it did in Vietnam, Cuba,
> China and many other countries where victory was not achived.
The
Charles Brown wrote:
> Profits aside, two features of FDI which seem to clearly differentiate developed
> and developing countries (in the context of the US foreign investment thread,
> imperial vs neo-colonies) appear to be the balance between inward and outward
> investment stock (biased toward
Grant wrote:
> > country inward FDI stock/GDPoutward FDI stock/GDP
> > Canada 23.9% 26.9%
> > Australia 28.117.1
> > UK 23.335.9
> > France 11.715.9
> > Singapore 8
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Nice synthesis of these threads, Bill.
Profits aside, two features of FDI which seem to clearly differentiate developed
and developing countries (in the context of the US foreign investment thread,
imperial
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LP:
>
> Perhaps we have a different definition of imperialism. I don't regard
> US bullying and imperialism as the same thing. Switzerland and Sweden
> have never bullied anybody in recent years, but they are imperialist
> powers. US imperialism rules the roost, but it has junior partners
> includ
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:46:00 +0900, Charles Jannuzi wrote:
>US policies toward New Zealand came damn close
>when NZ objected to US ships not confirming
>whether or not they carried nukes in NZ waters
>and harbors.
>In the case of Australia, the US has taken the
>place of GB as key 'military ally'
LP:
>>But I wouldn't compare what happened in Australia to what happened to
Nicaragua, however. The USA could have lived with a Labor government in
Australia. It was on the other hand ready to break laws and risk a
constitutional crisis to topple a government that it feared would become
another C
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:37:28 +1200, Bill Rosenberg wrote:
>
>It's difficult to say what profit figures would
>show. The ability of TNCs to transfer their
>profits from one country another for tax,
>political or internal reasons must make the
>profit attributed to their operations in any one
>count
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:45:40 +0800, Grant Lee wrote:
>We have quite different understandings of what
>constitutes a "powerful revolution". In short, I
>think Marx was right in the first place: a
>_proletarian_ revolution has a much greater
>chance of success and longevity if it takes
>place (or be
Ratios of inward and outward FDI stock to GDP, and FDI flows to gross fixed
capital formation are tabulated for most countries in the various World
Investment Reports of UNCTAD. They also calculate a "transnationality index" of
FDI host countries, which averages the four shares: FDI flows (as a pe
Bill Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> country inward FDI stock/GDPoutward FDI stock/GDP
> Canada 23.9% 26.9%
> Australia 28.117.1
> UK 23.335.9
> France 11.715.9
> Singapore 85
Louis:
> Basically, I
> advocate anti-imperialist slogans in places like Argentina and Venezuela,
> in combination with demands against the local comprador bourgeoisie. The
> most powerful revolutions in this hemisphere over the past 50 years have
> identified with the historical colonial revolut
Louis Proyect writes:
> >there are degrees. Japan isn't going to become a neo-colony in the near
> >future, but it's clear that US-based companies use their clout to push
for
> >"opening" the Japanese economy to freer flow of capital, etc., so that US
> >companies can buy Japanese assets, etc., a
Grant Lee wrote:
>Louis,
>
>I'm sorry you feel that way. I took your reference to Lenin meant that you
>favoured the "national front" tactics of the early 1920s, which did involve
>bourgeois nationalists (in dependent countries).
This only confuses things further. Lenin advocated support for nati
Louis,
I'm sorry you feel that way. I took your reference to Lenin meant that you
favoured the "national front" tactics of the early 1920s, which did involve
bourgeois nationalists (in dependent countries).
> Imperialism deals with class relations, not which flag is flying over
> a country.
I a
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:29:15 +0800, Grant Lee wrote:
>I would ask: "why would
>Marxists any longer seek solidarity with
>bourgeois nationalists, except in the now rare
>circumstances where the formal national question
>has never been resolved?"
In my last reply to you, I urged you not to put word
Louis:
You said:
> But I am trying to address the question of whether Argentina is
> qualitatively different from Great Britain. My purpose in these posts
> is to answer a current within Marxism that asserts that there is no
> difference.
In that case you were complicating matters by referring
Left nationalism is nothing new in Canada and it certainly not a novel
theory of Ross Dowson. Left nationalism was a strong current in the NDP (New
Democractic Party) a social democratic party that ruled in BC,
Saskatchewan, Manitoba and even Ontario for a while. It still governs
Manitoba and Sas
nfree labour: at first
>British convicts, later Aborigines, South East
>Asians and Pacific Islanders.
That is only aspect of Australian class society. There is also a
powerful bourgeoisie that includes people like Rupert Murdoch.
>A pertinent metaphor, since the
>economies focused on
Argentine
bourgeoisie in particular and the Argentine bourgeois state, not Argentine
wage earners.
"During the early years of the Great Depression, unemployed men would blame
themselves for their failure." A pertinent metaphor, since the economies
focused on exports of raw materials, like Arg
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> Louis tells us that
Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina
than Canada. Why? Was it because the settlers were ethnically different
in Argentina from those in Canada? Did Britain have to behave differently
toward Commonwealth countries?
Paul, could you give us a brief outline of
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>Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as
>relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization
and
>obfuscation in this account also. Since I have already published
several
>hundreds of pages and articles on this subject
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", in "Argentina, Australia and
>Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965", edited by D.
>Platt & Guido di Tella:
>
>Yet, within the general pattern of similarity which gave them their
>distinctiveness, there were also important differences. The key to
Correction: this was the topic I intended for my last post, which went put
under "The Collapse of Argentina, part one".
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Warwick Armstrong, "The Social Origins of Industrial Growth: Canada,
Argentina and Australia, 1870-1930", in "Argentina, Australia and
Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965", edited by D.
Platt & Guido di Tella:
Yet, within the general pattern of si
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