Re: Re: Lenin's Super-Imperialism (was Britain/US split?)

2001-09-26 Thread Greg schofield
Chris I owe you an apology. I looked up your references below to Hardt and Negri and was genuinely surprised that I should be echoing their logic, in passing I also read some other interesting points they raise. What can I say except that they come at things from an angle which I find strained

Re: Re: Lenin's Super-Imperialism (was Britain/US split?)

2001-09-25 Thread Greg schofield
Please do not consider me in anyway with Hardt and Negri who's book I have not read and from my browsing of it find little reason to ever do so. I thought all I was stating was classic Historical Materialism as developed by Lenin (on which we may well disagree without bringing in extraneous as

Re: Re: Lenin's Super-Imperialism (was Britain/US split?)

2001-09-25 Thread Gar Lipow
Not only do we not see a single untied International Capitalist class; in the U.S. at least we do not see a single united U.S. capitalist class. To make a simple minded argument -- if capitalists were completely united, we would already be in concentration camps. Chris Burford wrote: > At 26/

Re: Lenin's Super-Imperialism (was Britain/US split?)

2001-09-25 Thread Chris Burford
At 26/09/01 00:19 +0800, Greg wrote: Was it not Lenin in Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism who noted the emergence of some then "unstable" international cartels as precursors of the next stage? I trust no one has missed the fact that this form of combine is now both stable and plentiful