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 Try to keep your arguments from being more than one generation out of date, OK?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