G'day Julien,
> I'm not sure what you mean with "inextricable". IMO capitalism can be >reformed, but
>it would be way better to destroy it.
I agree with this, capitalism is always reforming itself, and the workers have
often had a lot to do with that. It's probably instititutionally harder now
than ever, but there's plenty of genuinely antagonised resistance out there to
its systemic destruction of the institutions and relations that make up its
own legitimacy. This could go anywhere. I suspect it's one of those
watershed moments.
> They are part of the same reality, but I don't believe in destiny. >There is such
>things as coincidences.
I agree with this, too.
>>But for right now, I think I have good reason to continue to work
>>toward smashing imperialism.
All imperialism is lousy. People who have control over people they don't
know, whose fortunes don't imply many direct consequences for the controllers
themselves, especially where those controlled live far away, well, it's a bad
idea. If those controllers are driven by the accumulation imperative, it's an
even worse idea. And if those controllers join forces to ensure the control,
but compete with each other like rutting alpha males in the process of that
control, then we're talking disaster in the making. Does anyone remember an
old black'n'white flick in which two blokes are fighting on the railway
tracks, both see a train coming, but neither can stop fighting, so the train
flattens 'em? 'Laissez-faire' imperialism is set to emulate that, I think -
if they've gutted nation states and undermined the possibility of
transnational non-finance-directed institutions so much that there's no-one
there to break up the fight for a crucial moment or two, anyway.
Of course, a micro-economist would see that another way. A big die-off - even
in the event that the firm's own current workers and markets being among the
dead - is hardly of mortal import. The firm - afforded the status of natural
entity by law and custom, but with none of the natural needs, interests,
compunction or inclinations to which real entities are heir - will go on in a
world of brand new commercial opportunities. That's why economists can't
help. To them, if they stayed true to their professional logic, the last cod
is simply the one most worth hunting down ...
Yours in idle speculation,
Rob
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