"dangling a cigarette"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>When asked to comment on the  possibility of
>>the Booker Prize contest accepting  American
>>applicants, the 1997 winner with "The  God of Small Things,"
>>declared, "I'm certainly not  intimidated by American writers."
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/international/europe/25BOOK.html
>
>http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020429&s=buruma042902&c=1
>
>The Anti-American
>by Ian Buruma

Ian Bruma writes: "The soaring market in Algeria? The new world 
economic order in Sudan? Profit-making in Afghanistan? Ah, if only. 
There were no doubt many reasons for the suicidal murder spree at the 
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but global capitalism surely 
comes low on the list. Islam ism flourishes precisely in places that 
are relatively or even absolutely untouched by IBM or Motorola or 
even, strange to say, McDonald's. If the new economic order were the 
problem, why didn't the terrorists come from Bangkok, or Hong Kong?"

Capitalism as a mode of production, however, isn't a collection of 
multinational corporations like IBM, Motorola, & McDonald's, not even 
a sum of all the "private sectors."  Whether you are unemployed in 
Long Island, a civil servant in Paris, a young soldier in Sudan, or a 
refugee from Afghanistan, you sure as hell cannot escape the direct 
and indirect impacts of global capitalism with its compulsion to 
M-C-M'.
-- 
Yoshie

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