Marx on free trade

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Sep 27 06:10:31 PDT 1999


"Mr P.A. Van Heusden" wrote:


> I'll happily embrace protectionism the day I see
> protectionism without xenophobia, and without a call to accomodate the
> bosses interests. Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to see anything
> like that in any capitalist state.

In the United States one could make a (small) start in separating the two by attacking the slogan "Buy America," which is an anti-working class slogan in any case, urging individual workers to subordinate their personal necessities to a pointless unity, not with other workers but with their "own" bourgeoisie.

Carrol



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