Thanks, Rob.
>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)