Bush To Propose $3b For Workers

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 07:55 AM 10/5/01 -0400, Todd wrote:
>This is a good analysis, Wojtek, but all you've said is that the rulers
>buy off the workers when times are bad for the rulers (and, most likely,
>the workers too), but as soon as the "good times" come round again, the
>pork barrel gets nailed shut.  So what?  I'm curious to see what happens
>when capitalism hits another "wall" in it's development and workers are
>required to make some big concessions (via government) to keep
>capitalism going and the bosses happy.

I agree.  My answer to this problem is "see how others solved it"  - trying
to attain pie-in-the-sky utopias lost any appeal to me.  I am particularly
impressed by the Scandinavian solution and, to a somewhat lesser extent,
Western European.  One cosequence of that approach is dump the concept of
"capitalism" (or any other trans-national system) as a useful analytical
approach, and look at much lower units of aggregation, such as nationa
states, institutions, and organizations.

wojtek