Patrick has a point. Have more fun. I could never understand why leftists were really concerned over who is president of the World Bank. It is like arguing over who should give the firing squad the fire order. The Bank is the c rime, not the people who run it.
All such struggles over personnel are implicit or even explicit voices for the continuation of capitalism. Carrol _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Bond Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:36 AM To: DEBATE; Progressive Economics; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Pen-l] (Fwd) SUPERB African candidate for WB prez NEWS ITEM: Finance ministers from South Africa, Nigeria and Angola, respectively Pravin Gordhan, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Carlos Alberto Lopes will hold a press conference at 08:30 before they have a meeting. They will most likely announce their agreement on the candidacy of Okonjo-Iweala for the top post at the World Bank, which will become vacant from 1 July. *** Down with Jeff Sachs! All power to Nguzi Okonjo-Iweala. On January 1 this year, she succeeded with coalition-building where no one else on the Nigerian opposition ever has, generating lefty and centrist unity (until labour finally split), mass credibility for the anti-neolib cause, an analytically easy line of power from Washington to Abuja, unprecedented numbers in the streets in a near-revo general strike over the petrol price hike, and the internationalisation of the Occupy brand into Africa. Ok ok ok, I know you'll rebut that Larry Summers would accomplish all of that and more. But surely since he's not going to get the job, don't you think it would be marvelous to wish she does, and then for the global left to mimic our Nigerian friends, and respond to a successful Ngozi candidacy with the grace and goodwill that any soothsayer might have done just before she took marching orders from Christine Lagarde and raised fuel prices a few weeks ago? So I say: give that Nigerian madam full support, and take lessons from the Nigerian masses in insult-throwing, impromptu organising, Occupy-isation, and general striking. A shame Trevor Manuel is not in the mix, it would have been SO much more fun for us down here... http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/the-myth-of-manuel-s-wizardry-1.10724 29 Cheers, Patrick
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