Mark,
>I don't like self-serving populist demagoguery.
This looks gratuitous.To be populist, he would have to address "the masses",
isn't it? IMO, anti-populism has been an excuse to fail for many left-leaning
parties BTW.
>On one and the same day he can be found
>siding with the angels and demanding more criticism of the World Bank,
>even that it should be closed forthwith etc; and then in almost the
>same breath urging us to agree that there is a sunny side to the
>system after all: "What's so hard about saying the system sucks, yeah,
>but it sucks less for a lot of people than it did a few years ago."
How is believing that "it" could be worse contradictory with criticizing the World
Bank? It doesn't take a ten year old to understand such basic nuances IMO.
>But it's theoretically unhinged to argue for closing the
>World Bank in one place while applauding one of the most immediate
>results of World Bank/IMF etc efforts in another, i.e. the enriching
>of the USA ...
Is he talking about the enrichment of the USA or about some internal economic
phenomenon? Do you deny that recent wage advances outpaced advances
by capital, f.ex.? See lower.
>tabloidism
>of the kind: "What's so hard about saying the system sucks, yeah, but
>it sucks less for a lot of people than it did a few years ago."
Mark, I don't know for sure about the USA but western Europe sure sucks A
LOT less than, say, 60 years ago.
This satement is so vague and out of context that it's not a basis for criticism
anyway. You can make anything look tabloidic out of context. Imagine your
statements on Venus out of context...
>... If you get my drift.
Well, no. But it doesn't matter. I don't know anything about the petty "leftist"
scene of the USA.
>Actually, there is more militancy about for eg ecological issues, in
>Mr Gore than there is in Mr Henwood. And they sound similar.
Actually, this sounds VERY insulting. Gore is about as low as you can get. If
you said that about me, I sure wouldn't talk to you again. I hope one day that
for your own good you'll be able to control all this hate. Have we not had
enough "brothers-in-the-struggle" hitting each other in the back this century?
>Yes, I have taken it on myself to document some of his
>inconsistencies, and to point out why they exist in the first place. ...
Good. So if you talk about him, replace insults and parralels which will only
appeal to Lenin cultists (and ignorants of the most basic pluralist history of
1917 I might add) with this documentation. Give us more quotes and less
bashing so that we can decide for ourselves!
>If by 'these things' you mean the so-called 'New Economy', the
>definitive answer is, no, they are the direct product of plunder at
>home and abroad by US finance and industrial monopoly capital. Other
>than that, there *is* no New Economy.
See, you accuse Henwood of beign contradictory but here you're also talking
about the "so-called New Economy" and then denying it's existence. Isn't it
what Henwood also does (not that I read his last book or anything of the sort,
this is conjecture)?
As to beign the product of plunder, I think you must distinguish the "potential" of
an economy and the actual "performance". The potential is in this case
certainly a result of plunder but the "performance" can vary without a change in
the magnitude of plunder. You know... long waves, business cycles, unused
capacity, unemployment, interest rates, etc.
For the record, if this still needed clarification, I too don't believe in the "New
Economy".
>... This is
>called having your cake and eating it.
Not necessarily so because you can disagree with what the mainstream says
about a phenomena while saying that there is something else there.
>Non-linear change is a fundamental
>concept in all modern sciences except economics and psychotherapy,
>evidently.
This is not my experience of those "sciences" at all. As to most practioners in
these fields, well, I guess you're right. But remember, some "lies" can be
beneficial, especially if they replace other "lies".
Hoping you'll cool down and concentrate on our ennemies,
Julien
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