>After This=20
>Whatever Capitalism's Fate, Somebody's Already Working on an >Alternative =
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>By David J. Rothkopf
>Washington Post
>Sunday, January 20, 2002; Page B01=20
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>[David Rothkopf is chairman and CEO of Intellibridge Corp. He served >as =
>.managing director of Kissinger Associates and was deputy >undersecretary =
>of commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration.]
>
>Somewhere in the world today walks the next Marx. But he is not a =
>communist, and he almost certainly is not an expatriate German slaving >=
>over his theories in the stacks of the British Library. Nonetheless, >he =
>or she will attempt to seize upon the trends behind today's >headlinesto =
>shape a competitor to "American capitalism" that the disenfranchised >in =
>nations around the world can embrace.
>
>She may be in the streets of Buenos Aires, protesting an economic =
>meltdown that has left her family in the dust. He may have been among =
>the Palestinians celebrating at the collapse of the World Trade Center >=
>or among the Indonesians marching beneath banners bearing the likeness >=
>of Osama bin Laden. He may be in Beijing working to become the >architect =
>of reforms that might actually make "market socialism" a sustainable =
>concept. She might be a Nigerian whose daughter is among the 25,000 =
>children worldwide who die every day because, in the era of Perrier >and =
>artificial hearts, they lack clean water, basic medicine or food. He =
>might even be a Russian seeking to reestablish that country's >leadership =
>with an approach that is an alternative to an increasingly =
>self-interested, inflexible United States.
Woah. This guy almost completely discounts a "new Marx" coming from anywhere in the First World. Talking about hubris . . . .
Todd
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