(Thanks to Richard H. for making me aware of this important article, which
every socialist should read; I have excerpted the important bits and
slightly edited it - JB)
This coming October 23 to 24, the United States will be sitting down with
rich creditor countries, the International Monetary
Well, that's about as succinct a presentation of the problem as I've
seen so far. What have we got? A recipie for war-lord imperalism:
1. Destroy/ravage/immiserate/traumatize a country through bombing,
economic sancations, and chemical warfareto soften it up and make it
a reconstruction
joanna bujes wrote:
2. Reconstruct and liberate the country and pay for it by
appropriating all the wealth and natural resources of the country, which
you then sell off to those who are willing to bet that Iraq can be
reconstructed into a vast labor camp ...with lots of oil.
I doubt Washington or
Empires do die because something in human
nature either revolts or cannot thrive in this kind of environment.
I agree totally with your sentiments, but you may not be correct on this
point. Suppose that instead of getting people to revolt, you get them to
mutate in some way, let's think of a
Yes, the Life is Beautiful argument. (That Italian movie where a
clownish man acts out in order to convince his son that a concentration
camp is not a concentration camp. I couldn't force myself to see it, but
apparently that was the plot)...or perhaps Schindler's List, where the
essential
