Henry C.K. Liu
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Pat Buchanan wrote:
>
> > America First. We need a new foreign policy that ends foreign aid, and
> >pulls up all the trip wires laid down abroad to involve American soldiers
> >in wars that are none of America's business. And we need to demand that
> >rich allies begin paying the full cost of their own defense.
> >
> > Economic Nationalism. Rather than making "global free trade" a golden
> >calf which we all bow down to, and worship, all trade deals should be
> >judged by whether: a) they maintain U.S. sovereignty, b) they protect
> >vital economic interests, and c) they ensure a rising standard of living
> >for all our workers. We must stop sacrificing American jobs on the altars
> >of transnational corporations whose sole loyalty is to the bottom line. -
> >
> >The battle for the future will be as much a battle within the parties as
> >it will be between the parties, a battle between the hired men of the
> >Money Power who long ago abandoned as quaint but useless old
> >ideas of nationhood - and populists, patriots and nationalists who want no
> >part of Robert Rubin's world. - PB.
>
> "Thus, the task of the state toward capital was comparatively simple and
> clear; it only had to make certain that capital remain the handmaiden of
> the state and not fancy itself the mistress of the nation. This point of
> view could then be defined between two restrictive limits: preservation of
> a solvent, national, and independent economy on the one hand, assistance of
> the social rights of the workers on the other.... The sharp separation of
> stock exchange capital from the national economy offered the possibility of
> opposing the internationalization of the German economy without at the same
> time menacing the foundations of an independent national self-maintenance
> by a struggle against all capital. The development of Germany was much too
> clear in my eyes for me not to know that the hardest battle would have to
> be fought, not against hostile nations, but against international capital."
> -Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf