[lbo-talk] Militarism & U.S. Corporate Economy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 17 15:20:34 PST 2003


Bob Feldman wrote:


>A bipartisan foreign policy of either "unilateral militarism" or
>"multilateral militarism" appears to be built into the social structure of
>the corporatist U.S. economic system of "Corporate Militarism". (see C.
>Wright Mills, The Causes of World War III book, for instance). And
>bipartisan support for even "limited financial aid to the Sharon regime"
>also continues to perpetuate the drift to yet another Middle East war
>escalation. So anti-war readers like yourself, often also become
>anti-corporate and opposed to even limited financial aid to the Militaristic
>Israeli Establishment; and they often end up reading magazines like Dollars
>& Sense and/or supporting third party anti-war left electoral alternatives
>to Bush's GOP or Soros'Dems. Without creating an anti-corporate economic
>system in the USA, I'm skeptical that U.S. anti-war activists are going to
>be able to really end the current era of "permanent war" and
>institutionalized U.S. militarism.

Hey Bob, since you're so smart & righteous, why don't you start a publication free of corrupting support that tells the truth & tells it plain? Hint: you'll have to stop writing like this, or else no one will read it.

Doug



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