The Dutch Financial Daily (10 July, p. 2) interviewed Clyde Prestowitz,
author of Rogue Nation - American unilateralism and the failure of Good
Intentions (Basic Books, 2003). Chief of a rightwing thinktank and
born-again Christian, Prestowitz has got himself something of a reputation
as an expert
Jurriaan: It never ceases to amaze me how many leftists often consider imperialism
an outdated concept (they would rather talk about a globalised world in
which we are all politically powerless beyond protesting at international
forums) whereas conservatives and liberals freely admit the existence
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
So Lenin was actually making a specific
political intervention in an ongoing discussion, basing himself on ideas
current in his time (and not a rigorous argument about the operation of the
capitalist world market, grounded in Marx's theory of value).
I think this
by somebody else, who may not even
be a professional academic.
Regards
J.
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Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
So Lenin was actually making a specific
political intervention in an ongoing discussion, basing himself on ideas
current in his time
