Doug writes: >Here's an idea - social democracy is more compatible with "monopolized" >ownership structures than most social democrats would like to admit, and is >undermined by U.S.-style financial and corporate governance arrangements. >It's probably very difficult for U.S. social dems to admit to this, given >this country's love of small business and populist, anti-centralizing >political traditions. I agree: if firms have more monopoly power (including more insulation from international trade competition), they are more able to make concessions to labor and the like. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
