delinking does not equal autarchy

Patrick Bond pbond at wn.apc.org
Wed Feb 7 10:45:04 PST 2001



> From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
> Which activists?

Some the key strategist-lefties at Porto Alegre, for example... Boris is popular on the lists!


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > Patrick Bond wrote:
> > >Comrade, just leave that hardback bulk of a book behind. Take the
> > >tight new paperback Kagarlitsky trilogy from Pluto instead; it's all
> > >the rage in the activist crowd.
> > And what's the goal of these activists' activities?
> > Doug

Here's Boris...

Since 1998, capitalist crisis has

forced even the neoliberal mainstream to change

its attitude towards the role of the state.

Experts of the IMF suddenly declared that

`certain types of capital controls may be

justified in some circumstances.' American

businessmen agreed: `Maybe some sort of

protectionism makes sense for Russia.' The state

must use its strength to overcome the crisis of

the market. `If that means instituting wage and

price controls, or renationalizing basic

industries to ensure supplies and employment, so

be it.'

As for reforming Empire, he correctly surmises that

no international regulation will work unless it

is based on national and regional bodies. If it

is not, the rules and decisions made by

international bodies simply will not be

implemented. And no democratisation of

international relations is possible without

democracy at the level of a nation state.

(Twilight of Globalization, London, Pluto, 2000, p.39)



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