> Dennis, your reading of Adorno has led you to champion authoritarian -
> militaristic state bureaucrats over global rentiers?
No, my reading of the press, the Web, and countless economists, journalists and observers has led me to champion the idea that East Asia got rich by controlling markets rather than being controlled by such, and that the dragons practice a financial and industrial socialism completely at odds with Wall Street-style bubblemania. These states themselves are shot full of contradictions -- they repress people, at the same time they create the conditions for their liberation. Simply saying that the state is evil is like saying capital is evil -- a moral position, not a socialist critique.
-- Dennis