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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-victory-for-sanity-in-world-politics/
I won't cite the many articles currently appearing, you have as much
access to them as I do and I don't regard them as nitpicking, which
ascribe or associate this seeming rapprochement with a deal to bring
North Korea into the ambit of transnational corporate power - just as
with China in 1975 as you say, when I saw on TV first Kissinger and then
Ted Kennedy traveling to China, emissaries for a similar deal with that
country.
So the further implication is that North Korea, instead of struggling
with top-down socialism in one isolated country, is to become more
openly capitalist (capitalism defined as usual as accumulation and
expansion by labor exploitation, application of the labor theory of
value) in form if not in name. The US gets to share onerous terms of
trade in North Korea with South Korea, China and Japan, and the Kim
family dynasty only has to contend with its own exploited people, and no
longer so much with the sanctions and threats of transnational capital.
If that's our idea of "risking peace instead of war," rather than
kicking the can down the road and using threats of cataclysmic
destruction to power a deal with another heretofore non-compliant
country, getting them to knuckle under to US corporate dominance and all
that entails for further exploitation of cheap foreign labor, access to
resources, exacerbation of the toxic contradictions of capital leading
inexorably to planet destruction and nuclear holocaust, then so be it, I
suppose.
In 1957, I co-wrote a pamphlet called "Question and Answers on Nuclear
Testing" which with some small success conveyed the conclusion that,
until we are collectively on track toward substantive equality, rather
than specious, inoperable formal equality of opportunity under
capitalism, no deal on nuclear proliferation and its likely
planet-destroying consequences is possible. That message still holds.
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