>And
>there is much capitalist industry that can, without great disagreement among
>socialists, be decommissioned. That pertaining to the military sector would
>be a good place to start.
>  Michael K.


Military spending is 2% of OECD GDP, of which only 1/4 is the 
procurement of products that are peculiarly military. We don't live 
in the late 1950s, when military spending was 10% of GDP and even 
Eisenhower was scared of the military-industrial complex.

Try to keep your arguments from being more than one generation out of date, OK?



Brad DeLong

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