----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at wn.apc.org>
> the US state is the most ungenorous, stigmatising
> and corporate-oriented (allowing most important social wage
> components -- housing, pensions, healthcare -- to be delivered by the
> employer, in another manifestation of class power that
> continually erodes the miltancy of employees). I think Gosta
> Esping-Andersen's typology of "worlds of welfare capitalism" is still
> on target (notwithstanding some problems), and if more US radicals
> followed these social policy issues, and won a national health
> insurance or cancelled workfare, the broader perspective on the US
> left would be far healthier.
This is an excellent point. I always thought that people who put U.S. capitalism in with the welfare states of Europe were missing the point.