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

John Thornton jthorn65 at mchsi.com
Fri Oct 31 17:24:02 PST 2003


I certainly do not want to put words into anyone's mouth but are some people on this list claiming that Canada doesn't have the consumptive lifestyle they have because of US policies? I find it hard to imagine anyone could believe that.

John Thornton


> > Have you heard of this new theorist -- Keynes, I think?
>
>Keynes proposed that the only governmental spending capable of supporting an
>economy is military spending? Wow, the things I've missed...
>
> > I'm not talking just about that. I'm talking about propping up all the
>oil
> > despots, who serve to keep "our" oil out of "their" people's hands.
>
>No, I don't think the US would care if the Middle Eastern states were all
>Western European-style social democracies... they'd still sell us their oil
>about as cheaply.
>
> > Neither the United States nor any other general agglomeration of people
> > needs a poor Third World to survive. But that is exactly the point -- our
> > power elite does need exactly that, and they dominate our economies and
> > countries. Hence, until we rid ourselves of their dominance, I'm afraid
> > that "our" economies (Canada's included) do indeed depend on cheap Third
> > World commodities. I would have thought this point would be obvious to
> > LBO-ers. It certainly is to the business class.
>
>No, the business class knows that cheap third world commodities _boost_
>profits. They don't create them.
>
>-- Luke
>
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