[Fwd: Social democracy betrayed -- Le Monde diplomatique]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 19 11:53:10 PDT 1999


Seth Ackerman wrote:


>There is undoubtedly a global order enforced by the Pentagon. How Sweden
>benefits from that any more than China does is not clear to me. Sweden
>is not even part of NATO.

Swedish multinationals have long enjoyed bigtime foreign profits which helped pay for the welfare state. Those multinationals would have a much harder time of it if it weren't for the Pentagon making the world safe for foreign investment.

Doug



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