japan

[Brad Mayer]

Actually, it is the _reverse_ of whatever Asiaweek or Asahi Shimbun 
advocate - its just based on the same material reality: Japan's 
extraordinary exposure to the world market.  Modern socialism, after all, 
presupposed the development of the productive forces under capitalism, 
something capitalists are also (cyclically) in favor of, for their own reasons.

I could go into details, but I have to get to work right now.  Later...

-Brad Mayer
Oakland, CA

At 12:10 AM 3/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>The strengths that Yoshie mentioned (aside from the efficiency of its civil
>servants: I don't get where this idea comes from--Yoshie?), though, point to
>the difficulty in your vision. The "glorious revolution" that you described
>above sounds a lot like the kind of stuff that's been advocated in Asiaweek
>and Asahi Shimbun for years now--under the rubric of "Americanization." Not
>to say that there's an irreducibly American moment in this dialectic, but
>how do you see working w/o spillover into economic governance?