Reform of IMF (was the global melodrama)

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Thu Aug 20 15:24:14 PDT 1998


Quoth Mark, the Mad Monk:


>Thus Max Sawicky just said 'the best we could hope for was
social-democracy' (words to that effect). Of course, we can't hope for any such thing; it's utopian. There'll be a revolution in the US before there's a free health service (something we're just celebrating the first half century of, but that's how long ago social democracy still had any life). Max's politics are dreams, illusions.>>

I doubt the b-oisie is so dumb they would reject a national health service and risk a revolution.

Of course, ain't gonna be no revolution, but a strong s-d movement can indeed win national health care.


>Voluntarism, spontaneism, defeatism, a profound pessimism that informs
nothing more productive than an articulate cynicism -- Doug's book is popular because it gives people the comfort of a shared sense of hopelessness: Hey, if a dissident insider as smart as Henwood knows it's hopeless to bet against Wall St, who am I, John Doe from Peoria, to worry?>

Sounds to me like the defeatist is you.

Doug's book is popular because of its numerous color photographs of naked, twenty-something traders. (doing my bit for circulation, Doug)


>There is a terrible narcissism about this. Presumably, the day when the
doubters do perceive the logjams breaking up, they'll choose up sides at last.
>But we don't want fairweather friends. We want people who join us now,
because they know it's the right thing to do. That's the only reason anyone needs, actually.>

Bingo. Revolution as a moral choice.

How ahistorical, how unMarxist, how boozhwah.

How religious.

Peace be with you,

MBS



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