At 09:50 15/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This article Doug posted is open and obvious evidence of the military
industrial complex, and direct support and connecton between the ruling
class for the institutions of war and militarism. A sort of smoking gun of
capitalist mass murder. It is some refutation of the arguments being made
that the U.S./NATO attack on Yugoslavia is without economic or business
motives. Would business people be doing this if the U.S. military and NATO
were carrying out any wars that the transnational monopoly corps. and
banks consider against their interests ? I don't think so. Would these
business people be this enthusiastic (even with the token or symbolic
amounts of money for them ) about NATO if there weren't big bucks for them
somewhere in the current war ? Give me a break. Clinton and the U.S.
government, Blair et al. are the executive. They serve at the pleasure of
the Board of Directors. The list of companies (in Doug's original post) are
a representative committee of the Board of Di!
>rectors of Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.
>
>Of course, some might think the Bourgeoisie are concerned about humanity
in Yugoslavia and around the world. Yea, they are concerned that they
control mass human labor power. They can't kill everybody, just lots of
people.
>
>Charles Brown
Charles already knows that I have posted on LBO-talk the following passage
from Lenin under the thread title, The Economic Basis for the War.
Clinton's extensive strategic arguments yesterday in San Francisco at the
Association of Newspaper Editors, I submit is in conformity with this.
I think Hugh is correct about the literally reactionary nature of Serb
nationalism in the rump Yugoslav socialist federation.
Only a critique that addresses this *more* seriously from a working class
point of view can answer the apparently liberal counter strategy of
Blair/Clinton/Schroeder for an expansion of the multi-ethnic European
superstate.
Lenin:
"Developing capitalism knows two historical tendencies in the national
question. The first is the awakening of national life and national
movements, the struggle against all national oppression, and the creation
of national states. The second is the development and growing frequency of
international intercourse in every form, the break-down of national
barriers, the creation of the international unity of capital, of economic
life in general, of politics, science, etc."
"Critical Remarks on the National Question" 1913
Chris Burford
London
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