NN
> Because conservatives in the US since World War II have had the
advantages
> of a Hamilitonian state via the Military-Industrial complex while
able to
> maintain the rhetoric of free markets except for "national security"
> exceptions - the exception that swallowed the rule for a range of
business
> needs.
=============== You mean the conservatives have been hypocrites? Shocking!
> With the end of the Cold War, some conservatives bought their own
rhetoric
> and promoted the whole Gingrich version of market mania- calling for
> abolition of half the Cabinet departments and actually trying to
dismantle
> the Hamiltonian benefits for business in some cases. Parts of
capital
> reacted negatively both to the excesses and the results that played
out in
> certain sectors, both the results in the breakdown of certain
economic
> sectors and in the political reactions embodied by Seattle.
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Not the Gingrich from the Cobb county that got the highest amount of
federal $$$ [next to Arlington county, VA]? Shocking!
It seems the Repugs always want to target those elements of the State apparatus that supports the Dems business factions and vice versa. The post-New Deal state largely being the execrescence of business factionalism played out via the two party duopoly; competitive rent-seeking and all that....
Ian
> The successful economic management of Clinton-Blairite "Third Way"
politics
> just further assurred those parts of capital that they could get the
> benefits of Hamiltonian governance without the egalitarian excesses
they
> feared from the center-left. The tradeoff of some redistribution
was worth
> the stability and economic coordination gained through center-left
> governance. Obviously not a universal sentiment across capital, but
note
> the endorsement this week by THE ECONOMIST of Tony Blair over the
Tories.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
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You mean centrist "third-way" don't you? :-)
Ian