[lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT:

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

Doug asks: "how important are [Third World dependencies] to profit-making in
general?"

I think the answer is: much greater than appears in the economic numbers,
which, judged from the vantage point of Peru, Malaysia, Ghana, etc, are
quite large anyhow.

Personally, I am convinced that the biggest contribution of undemocratic and
inegalitarian maldevelopment (i.e., U.S. imposed normalcy) in the Third
World is the suppression of "the threat of a good example."  If the Third
World were allowed, as Luke Weiger seems to think it is, to produce robust
social democracies, how long would G7 (Russia doesn't count) privileges and
advantages last?

I also think this interpretation, which Chomsky advocates, is the only one
that comports with the actual history of what's happened, and what's
continuing to happen.  "Despots 'r' U.S."  Our corporations' profits depend
deeply on the removal of Mossadegh, Ho Chi Minh, Sandinistas, etc., from
power.