>Patrick Bond wrote:
>
>>I don't see
>>progressives achieving a global consensus on how to clean up the
>>int'l financial system (Doug failed to give us even a roadmap in his
>>book focusing instead on the US policy arena)
>
>Hey, I had a hard enough time coming up with something for the U.S. As for
>remaking the world, I just have no damn idea. I thought you were handling
>that, Patrick!
>
>Actually, I think the best way to start a remaking would be for
>troublemakers to take over the governments of some of the larger "Third
>World" states, form a debtors' cartel, disengage from the international
>trading system, and just generally tell the imperialists to take a hike.
>Utopian, I know....
No, why? Cuba did it. OK, it's not that large a country. Then, China did it: but now is busy re-engaging itself.
The problem is not that it can't be done: it's that it doesn't work.
Enzo