Louis Proyect wrote: > ... Speaking for myself, I did think that he [Obama] would try to pull out of > Iraq now that the Shiites seem to be in control. The US is badly in need of > investment funds right now and the occupation of Iraq is an unneeded expense. > However, the heavily militarized political culture of the US tends to > militate against actions that are actually in the interests of the ruling > class.<
What do you think would be best for the long-term interests of the US ruling class? partition into three sub-nations (à la Biden)? Does the ruling class really care about the US economy (and its people) or simply about their own finances? BTW, it's more than a militarized culture. There are also strong interest groups within the capitalist class (the famous military-industrial complex). I don't think the capitalist class of any country acts in a unified way to serve their long-term collective self-interests except when they're afraid of a unified working class or some other kind of system-disrupting force. >I had a houseguest this week from Uganda who is very shrewd about American >politics. When I discussed the seeming failure of the American ruling class to >act in its own long-term interests, he had this apt one-word response: >Brezhnev.< great line! -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
