On 3/12/16 12:11 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > This is another good example of armchair Marxists quoting scripture as a > guide to action without any experience or appreciation of current realities.
You assume too much. I just posted this on the Marxism list: On 3/12/16 10:01 AM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote: > And I should point out that the young Karl Marx was rather dismissive > of Friedrich List. > https://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/marx/works/1845/03/list.htm > > Nevertheless, List, posthumously, influenced German economic policy > after that country was united under Bismarck. > Back in 2003, we had a subscriber named Julio Huato who came from Mexico to work on an economics PhD at the New School. He has since gotten his degree and teaches in Brooklyn. He raised quite a few eyebrows defending NAFTA like this: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/23891/ I think the key to understanding M&E's support for free trade is their identification with the bourgeois revolution. As the article I linked to before indicates, they were in favor of anything that developed the productive forces. In the 20th century protectionism is a deeply problematic stance to take if the nation adopting it is like Germany or the USA. Trump is much more the traditional protectionist while Sanders focuses more on how bad free trade agreements like NAFTA and TPP are. For me the real question is how the Golden Age of American capitalism can be restored. From Trump's "making America great again" to Sanders speechifying about helping the middle class, there's a great deal of denial involved. Wages have been going down because American manufacturing (except in certain sectors like aerospace and software development) is not profitable. You can't get the genie back in the bottle. The USA launched the Cold War in order to penetrate the Communist world and liberate it for private property. Now standing victorious, the ruling class has to confront the backlash from its own working class that may make the old mole resurface. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
