Our friend Bob is always disparaging Kautsky but couldn't it
be the case that Lenin was right concerning pre-WW I Europe
whereas Kautsky's concept of a super-imperialism may well
have validity for the world we live in now?
Jim F.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:18:00 +0000 Jim heartfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In message <v0422080eb4900d2d9882@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>Bob Malecki wrote:
>>
>>>It is a myth "globalization". What we are seeing is growuing
>>>inter-imperialist rivalry which is quite the opposite of
>>>globalization the Leninist analisis of imperialism being the higest
>>>stage of capitalism..
>>
>>Ah yes. Germany re-arming. Japan making threats against the U.S.
>>military presence in Asia. I mean, we saw this during the Kosovo war
>>that never happened, didn't we? U.S. tried to lead NATO into a war
>>against Serbia, but the EU would have none of it. No, said Brussels
>>to Washington - we're embarking on a program of interimperialist
>>rivalry, just like Lenin wrote!!
>
>Sometimes co-operation is a form of competition. The major economic
>rivalry in the Second World War was between the rising American
>republic
>and the declining superpower Britain. Their rivalry was managed
>through
>the medium of a joint war against Germany.
>
>However, the 1987-99 period is much more marked by the management of
>economic rivalries with unprecedented degrees of co-operation.
>Presumably the relative acquiescence of the international working
>class
>has given the ruling elites more room to manoeuvre.
>
>--
>Jim heartfield
>
>
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