On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Gar Lipow" > > > the constant unleashing of > all four horsemen against the global south benefits only the rich of > the global north, not the global north as a whole. > > ^^^ > CB: Nicely put, and hope giving. However, the last sentence above seems > to contradict the rest some. Are the rich of the global north making > profits off of the global south or not ?
No contradiction. I never said the rich in the Global North did not profit. It is the Global North as a whole that does not profit, and the working class especially. Loot is easier to direct upwards than actual creation of goods and services. One example: the military budget, invested in the right domestic industries such as mass transit, housing and education could produce much greater returns than the Global North does from keeping the Global South down. But such investment would increase the bargaining power of the working class, encourage interest in details of government as you get direct easy-to-see connections between spending and peoples lives. Eliminating or greatly reducing military spending in the global north would eliminate an instrument of indoctrination. (The military puts a great deal of effort into indocrinating its members into reactionary ideology. It does not take for everybody, but it produces a lot of dedicated reactionaries.) Also there is the obvious that the military is a last resort instrument to be used against the working class when needed, though the working class is weak enough and the civilian police strong enough that this may not be as major a consideration today as it was in the past. So not really a contradiction. The foot on the Global South is also an economic foot the the neck of the working class of the Global North. The rich benefit, not the working class or even the whole nation on average. > > > This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. > www.surfcontrol.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
