Chris Buford: >But it is not the case that there is nothing in the EZ that conforms to >the progressive interests of working people, just because it is a victory >for the ruling class. For one thing they generally appreciate the benefits >of a large market, as Lenin noted, in an aside on the national question.
Lenin never said anything of the sort. >But most importantly, geopolitically, it is necessary now to call into >existence the Old World to redress the balance of the New. I have no idea what this means. >There is a sometimes a counterposed symmetry in the positions of Louis >Proyect and mine. I regard it as the first international duty of any >citizen of the USA to oppose US hegemonism, and to pay due attention to >all the rival forces in the world, including the other imperialisms in >order to have a realistic chance of doing so. I tend to assume that Louis >Proyect would regard the first duty of a citizen of a western European >country to oppose their own imperialism and the new European imperialism, >and I have to concede there are quite a number of Lenin quotations to this >effect. I wish you would post them to the list. They would have a less deleterious effect than genuflections to the Euro-Zone. >I see the development of a more diversified world in which power is >struggled over between imperialist blocs, so long as they do not go in for >war, as favourable to the interests of the working people of the world, >and to the development of world unity and world government on the basis of >some relative justice. For the workers, the choice between US imperialism and European imperialism is like the choice between cyanide and arsenic. >That will make it easier, not more difficult, to move on to the struggle >for socialism. IMO. I see. The triumph of Euro-Zone neoliberalism, which will prevail over the smoldering ruins of the Social Democratic welfare state, will bring us closer to socialism. This "dialectical" insight takes my breath away.
