Thanks Charles. I kinda thought u would clarify this thusly On 9/1/09, CeJ <jann...@gmail.com> wrote: > The thing to remember is this: the NEW RULING party is simply a set of > factions that emerged from the OLD RULING party over 10 years ago. > They ran as opposition on MORE FREE MARKETS, DEREGULATION, > LIBERALIZATION and appeasement of big business interests that seek to > co-habit with American big business interests and the US military. > It's true that they said they were going to re-think the postal > privatization (now that everyone realizes it's about the only thing in > the country that appeasing American interests hasn't yet ruined), but > it's also important to remember that, at the time the simpleton > Koizumi of the old ruling party (LDP) was arguing for privatization > and running on this issue, the DPJ was vaguely arguing the > privatization didn't go far or deep enough. > > One would expect the usual interests of the American national security > state empire to argue that Japan started its reforms too late or did > too little--except the collapse of the US bubbles leaves them so > thoroughly repudiated by their own stupid free market rhetoric (which > was more about making Japan pay for more of the US's military spending > while securing insider deals and monopolized markets with US-Japan > trade anyway). > > The LDP truly sucked, the DPJ promises to suck even harder. > > CJ > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis >
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