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)