|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Thomas Seay
||
|| Hakki, with the advent of postfordism and
|| neoliberalism we have seen the advent of a lot of
|| money circulating the globe, unencumbered by State
|| intervention of any kind as well as a growing tendency
|| to reduce the State intervention and nation
|| demarcation in terms of the flow of commodities and
|| markets as well, through such schemes as the WTO.
US free trade hype and the casino capitalism of the 90's produced that illusion. In a free market world, the US could not survive; it is simply not competitive. But capitalists won't drop their dinosaur US conglos and invest their loot elsewhere - why? Because government intervention brings huge profits at minimum risk: Enron is but one example. US economic hegemony relies on global political and military intervention. I've been posting at length about US-Saudi relations, the great game, etc., so I won't repeat all that.
|| We have also seen the growing tendency towards
|| deploying a global police force without respect to
|| national boundaries. Post 9/11 has in no way
|| diminished these tendencies.
||
Get real, Thomas, what global force? There's only one force, and that's the US.
|| You might want to read the god-damn book Empire
And you might try raising your head from your gd book and taking a look at what's really happening.
|| understand that it is not about putting out some kind
|| of wacky theory about there no longer being
|| nation-states...or nation-states not having some
|| vestige of their former importance.
You're right about one thing; it's not a theory. I'll say no more because I don't want to start another stupid Empire thread.
Hakki