delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Feb 17 15:56:17 PST 2001



>John Mage wrote:
>
>>Doug wrote:
>>
>>> Why have so many state-centered alternative development regimes in
>>> the so-called Third World gone bad? Hardt & Negri have a theoretical
>>> answer: that national liberation struggles turn sour once they
>>> achieve state power, because the nation-state is a realm of hierarchy
>>> and exclusion... Please convince me why H&N's
>>> theoretical argument is wrong.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>
>>Cuba
>
>There was a USSR to support it 40 years ago. Today....?

Today, it's the American proletariat's turn to support it (and if the USA were socialist, it could _far better_ support Cuba & whatever nation on the periphery that wanted to get socialism going than the poor old USSR could), but Americans are not rising up to the occasion. :(

I think that, _morally speaking_, we in the belly of the beast _owe_ it to the rest of the world to build socialism here first of all & help others make a transition to socialism. Morality, however, has never been the motor force of history. _Might makes right_ -- hence the necessity of state power, from which American socialists, alas, stand _very, very far_, objectively & subjectively.

Yoshie



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