>>Insofar as global free markets reign supreme the world remains in
chaos.
However, it should be remembered that it was our political leaders who
deliberately de-regulated markets in the first place. <<
This, of course, is fiction, and bears absolutely no relationship
to reality.
Imperialism (a.k.a. globalization) is NOT about deregulation, is
NOT about free markets or anything else like that, that's a complete
and utter crock of shit and everybody in the third world knows it.
The imperialists want "free trade" when it suits them, but when it
doesn't they build tariff and quota walls that put the Great Wall of
China to shame. And just in case there are the anti-dumping laws.
When enterprises are forced to sell at a loss due to market
conditions in the imperialist countries that's called a threat to the
national economy and even the national identity and culture.
Subsidies, loans, price supports, criminal conspiracies in restraint
of trade (a.k.a. "marketing boards," etc.) and all sorts of other
mechanisms kick in to protect "our" auto industry, "our" farmers,
"our" fisheries, etc., etc. etc.
But when some Mexican tomato farmer or steel maker gets caught in
a price squeeze, why that's "dumping," that's "unfair" and "disloyal"
competition, and they get put on trial before the American
Imperialist's "international" trade court, their products get banned,
their countries get sanctioned.
Whoever takes the capitalists' word for it that they are for "free
trade" and so on and so forth is a hopeless idiot.
Jos�
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "crl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 2:41 PM
Subject: [CrashList] Fwd: John Bunzl: Undercurrents of Global
Community Development 1of2
[this is chapter 3 of John Bunzl's forthcoming book, "The Simultaneous
Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" ]
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