At 1:24 PM -0600 12/10/02, Carrol Cox wrote:
"They" think "they" know what they are doing, but they don't have all the cards necessary to win once and for all.Doug Henwood wrote: > If they're so stupid, gang, how come they've managed to run the world > all these centuries?I think it's wisest to assume "they" know what they're doing. It's unwise to underestimate an enemy.
At 3:52 PM -0600 12/10/02, Carrol Cox wrote:
We are on the lookout for weak links in the chain of capitalism and imperialism, so to speak.Joan Robninson and others demonstrated fairly conclusively that Luxemburg's technical economics in _The Accumulation of Capital_ were erroneous, but Luxemburg's insight, that capitalism had to expand endlessly or collapse was correct. Those who want to call the Bush administration and its DP supporters stupid need to explain by what alternative strategy u.s. capital can keep maintain u.s. (against EU, China, Japan) control of mideastern oil. The strategy may ruinously fail -- I hope so. But no one has suggested a better one. In fact all the criticism of it that gets published is by marginal left critics who want it to fail, and who would oppose any alternative strategy with the same goals.
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Yoshie
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