Chuck Grimes writes: "Why don't these guys use plain language. This is a naked power play pitting whole nations and their national interest against ECB power to be the determiner of their fate."
(This is a bit vague: Who are "these guys"?] The columnist Joseph Krutch, a conservative liberal, recognized decades ago that "nation" (as opposed to "the public" or "the people) referred to the ruling class, and hence the "national interest" of Greece is identical to the "National Interest" of Germany which in turn refers not to the German people but to the ECB. We live in an Empire of Capital, not a world of national empires -- read Ellen Meiksins Wood to see what that means. So "these guys" do it because it is in the national interest as _they_ see it. And they are of course correct. Capital is reality until collective action changes reality. Carrol Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
