On Apr 1, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Capitalist competition, they insist, does not necessarily drive > capitalist states into rivalry and war. They adopt a position remarkably > similar to that of the German Social Democrat, Karl Kautsky, who held > the possibility that the great powers could form a “golden > international” and jointly exploit the world’s working classes in > concert with one another—a theory he expressed just before the outbreak > of World War I. For Panitch and Gindin, this outcome has now been > achieved, not by an alliance of great powers, however, but through an > informal empire established by the United States. > > full: http://isreview.org/issue/92/global-empire-or-imperialism >
============= If Marx was Aristotle with an attitude and Lenin was Hobson with an attitude, P & G struck me as Charles Kindleberger with an attitude. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
