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Whatever, no one ever pretended the BRICS had *anything* to do with social justice. Neither did the seemingly dead Venezuelan and Bolivian trade and investment pacts. It's about in the case of the TomDisptach article by Escobar, about a counter-US imperialist economic policies and pacts designed to extend China's influence outside of US influenced trade, monetary and investment hegemony. One doesn't have to agree with the implications of it (I don't) but one should understand where the ultra-bonapartist regimes of China, Russia and now, maybe, India, are taking their mostly capitalist economies in this 'EuroAsian' paradigm. The description Escobar give about what the regimes perspectives are, are very accurate, according to my following what is going on. Even the international trade and investment moves by Brazil and Argentina are of interest here. I doubt, though I might be wrong, that the idea of Germany having a foot in both the Chinese initiatives and the Russian/Chinese ones is a little on the far fetched side despite China becoming, as the article put out, the German's largest trading partner. It's about investment, not trade, really, and Escobar doesn't comment on that. Still, even 14 years ago wondering around the streets of Guanghzou and Shenzhen German language schools outnumbered English ones about 4 to 1. Read the whole article... David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
