[lbo-talk] Free trade costs thousands of jobs... none other than conservative Phyllis Schlafly...

[Eubulides]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at union.org.za>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Free trade costs thousands of jobs... none other
than conservative Phyllis Schlafly...


> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:13:44 -0700
>  "Eubulides" <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > The only thing wrong with this piece is that free trade
> > does not exist on
> > planet earth.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
>
> "But, in general, the protective system of our day is
> conservative, while the free trade system is destructive.
> It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of
> the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point.
> In a word, the free trade system hastens the social
> revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone,
> gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade." - Karl Marx

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The Fortune 500 won't let a Ricardian world come into existence. Indeed
the latter is an institutional impossibility in the contemporary world.
Ah, the tyranny of concepts........

Ian