----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> I am puzzled that there could be any question about this. Clear U.S.
> hegemony is an unmitigated disaster for the human species. (Doug himself
> has often noted that the fall of the FSU was a disaster for the world.)
>
> The world would be considerably better off, for example, if (say) Iran,
> Egypt, & Brazil all had nuclear weapons. Doug has argued for a
> gradualist achievement of socialism. That is a daydream, but it would be
> a less bizarre daydream in a world in which u.s. imperialism were
> blocked both by other imperialisms and by greater military and economic
> strength in third world countries.
>
> Carrol
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Yes, lets by all means have oligopolistic rivalries in the Westphalian market for WMD's. Better yet lets have the Nozickian nightmare where anyone with the cash can have their own arsenal; imperialist libertarian populism for all!!
Sanity demands "we" launch the nukes towards the Sun before it's too late.
Ian