Tom the exterminator

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Tue Apr 9 08:16:29 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Michael Pollak wrote:
> >
> > The agony of "losing" China went a long way towards causing both
> > Korea and Vietnam. And the whole Cold War, for that matter.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> My memories are very vague, so this might be off the wall.
>
> Carrol

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