Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> >How can "a bunch of countries" make an alliance, "take a common
> >stance with their creditors, make some serious attempt at developing
> >serious economic and social links, and arrange some sort of trading
> >system with a division of labor" without states?
>
> States, plural. I don't like states, and look suspiciously on any
> proposal that would increase their power, even when they're coming
> from "our" side. But they exist (like Israel exists) and they're not
> going away anytime soon. So we make the best of that situation we
> can. What's I'd like to see is for people to begin thinking and
> acting beyond national boundaries, and the kind of cross-border links
> I'm talking about is one way. And if these links serve in the long
> term to undermine nation-states, so much the better.
>
> Doug