On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:38:13AMContainment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> It's been so long since I read it that I can remember no details nor
> correct labels, but I think long ago Chomsky wrote an analysis of a
> "National Security" document produced during the Truman administration
> that both laid out the contours of what came to be called the Cold War
> AND explicitly stated as one of its aims to "prime" the u.s. economy. In
> the late '40s there was really widespread fear -- both in public
> discussion and apparently in discussion in inner circles -- that the
> unemployment of the '30s would reoccur. It was not only Stalinists who
> thought that a "final slump" might be in the offing.
>
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