delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor)

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Sun Feb 18 19:48:48 PST 2001



> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> I dig absolutely, as someone once said, but how do you propose to go
> about this? There's a good chance we'll see some social security
> privatization, and we can't even imagine a public health insurance
> scheme - so how do we take over the leading imperialist state?
>
> Doug
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Isn't this the wrong question at this "point" in histories? Speaking of SS "privatization" any body out there giving that snake oil salesman Jose Pinera headaches? If the corps. get their way on financial services and competition policy language in the FTAA and GATS we could see SS overcome by "international law".

Ian



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