So, my point is that this kind of strategy is not one that we should be endorsing as providing a real framework for general advancement of working class interests.
Well yeah, but how? Suppose you were advising the S Korean government - what would you say? Or the Haitian government?
Years ago, at a little roundtable on the World Bank organized by Susan George, a bunch of us were gassing on in our usual radical manner when a former official in Manley's finance ministry in Jamaica said, "You have no idea what it's like to have to come up with $100 million in hard currency next week." I've never forgotten that. He's right - I had no idea, and still don't. But I think about it a lot.
Doug
