nation-states and financial Kism

[Brad De Long]

>Edwin Dickens wrote:
>
> >Do your comments about "tariffs" also apply to "managed trade,"  the
> >struggle against NAFTA, etc.?
>
>I have mixed feelings about anti-free-trade struggles. I wanted to
>see NAFTA defeated just to stick it in the bourgeoisie's eye, but I
>was really bothered by lots of the rhetoric around NAFTA, which was
>deeply nationalist and often anti-Mexican.
>
>Doug

"Protectionist nationalism is the socialism of fools?"

Well, it *is* genuine progress considering the alternative candidates 
for that role...

Brad DeLong