They should be pleased there are such moderate and far-sighted people in the movement. If not, the movement will be in the hands of anarchists and the 30 fold differences in wage rates in the world will contribute to horrors that will fuel outrage. Remember it was *before * Sept 11 that the meeting of the IMG/World Bank was reduced from 5 to 2 days!
At 03/10/01 00:29 -0400, you quoted: > Some may ask why the "anti-globalization" movement doesn't purge all >these communists. The simple answer is that, if all the communists were >purged, there wouldn't be any movement left. Behind all the rhetoric about >protecting the environment and relieving poverty in the developing world, >this movement is unadulterated Marxism � anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, >anti-American. The fascistic populist streak in US culture. They could more usefully note how ruthless capitalist private enterprise has robbed the country of a health infrastructure that could analyse a germ warfare attack. Foolish when it also has a government that is backing out of germ warfare global controls. Behind this fascistic mockery is bullying. And the USA will be foolish to try to bully now either internally or abroad. Its weakness could hardly have been more exposed on television screens throught the world. If the author is so proud, why does he not plan to draft all communists into an army of slave labour to rebuild the WTC even taller and more glorious, to show that the might of America cannot be beaten? > A better question is this: Why are we sending aircraft carriers > halfway >around the world to look for enemies, when our nation's worst enemies � >communists proclaiming an anti-American jihad � will be right there in front >of the Washington Monument on Saturday? Because what can the aircraft carriers do?? Drop cruise missiles in the mountains of Afghanistan at a cost of one million dollars a time. That is at best an economic equivalent of digging holes in the ground to ward off recession. Get the USA bogged down in a series of small wars it cannot win? Besides if they cannot tell a member of Al-Quaida from any pious islamic person transferring money around the world through the informal muslim credit transfer system, how can they expect to tell the difference between an old fashioned communist, a pacifist and a born-again Keynesian? This thread is mis-titled. Their problem is the need for Economic and Social Justice throughout the world. There is no way they can do an effective job of global policing against terrorism without such a veil over the powers of the emerging global state. And if the USA wants to rage abroad and repress at home, why the European Union has quietly started a system of monthly meetings with Russia to discuss defence and foreign policy. Chris Burford London
