G'day Thaxists,
I do appreciate the occasional updates on matters of importance to us all,
but I for one would really appreciate it if we start talking again. The
world is getting ever crazier, or so it would seem to this bemused Thaxist,
and I can't understand why no-one is interested in trying to use the list to
put together a collective approach to what's happening.
How significant a role does the Danube take in NATO's strategic reckoning?
How so a pre-emptive but very risky strike to guard against the
unpredictability, over the medium to long term, of Russia (eg. if NATO has
really misread and over-reached as much as many suspect, might we be seeing
a short term grab for IMF money and a longer-term possibility of default
within the context of a new round of Russian nationalism - mebbe, if we're
not all very careful, a sorta new Stalinism based on Slavic ethnicism and a
Russian grab for old glories - or mebbe, as Hinrich suspects, this war is
gonna have to get a lot bigger to meet the expectations its respective
authors have for it).
How do we hone Marxian notions of the state and imperialism here? Can we?
Is a new model for international regulation being built, from the ground up?
Has the UN joined the League of Nations in the dustbin of history? Is
capital responding to an incipient structural crisis of excess capacity and
diminishing profitability. And should we automatically oppose first world
militarism, regardless of purported humanitarian aspirations? Were those
purported goals ever achievable by force? If so, is NATO's politically
fraught unity up to a 100 000-strong expeditionary force? If not, why the
bombing, then?
Are we watching, in so many ghastly respects, history as farce?
Many people, on other lists (and many with a less sophisticated take on
Marxian theory than some of you) are talking about this. Why aren't we?
Just wondering,
Rob.
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