>Given X, the answer to "Does X emerge from the guts of capital?" is
>always, Of Course Not.
>
>This is in part the point Yoshie and I have been trying to make.
Oh really? Let me refine this. By "emerging from the guts of capital" I mean a policy or set of policies that attract broad support and well-funded lobbying from the likes of the Business Roundtable and the bulge-bracket firms on Wall Street. An example is the deregulation agenda of the 1970s or the monetary crackdown instituted by Paul Volcker. I don't see that as the origins of the war on Iraq. Perhaps I'm wrong.
Doug