To: Ted Grant and Alan Woods, and others Gentlemen, Your marxist analysis of the war in Kosovo at URL <http://www.marxist.com/Europe/kosovo6.html> was well done, and I thank Eva Durant for posting the URL to e-mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, where it attracted my attention. But there is yet something missing from your Marxist analysis, that is, a technically valid solution for the well documented pathologies of capitalism as practiced in the U.K. and the U.S.A.. Clearly, the public policies in those two countries cannot be sustained through the next century. Marx closely approached that technically valid solution in his Critique of the Gotha Program where he described several items in the expenses of management, which must be deducted from the total wages (contribution) of labor, and quoted the words of earlier socialist scholars "From each according to his ability, To each according to his need." But, close approaches do not count in human affairs. Please consider the work at URL <http://www.freespeech.org/darves/bert.html> as a way to fill the gap in your analysis, as readily as it fills the gap in the Ten Commandments, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the American Bill of Rights. As Adam Smith said in the first of his Four Maxims of Taxation: The expense of government is like the expense of management. They are not alike in our two countries, but they should be. Sincerely, Wesley S. Burt
