[lbo-talk] Imperialism & Multinational Capitalists Re: WWP/N. Korea

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

dredmond at efn.org:

>Quoting Lance Murdoch <lbotalk at lancemurdoch.org>:
>
>>In a just world, white liberal yuppies would have to go to North 
>>Korea, Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine and so forth and get 
>>down on their knees and beg the workers there for forgiveness for 
>>what they and their government have been doing to them.
>
>First of all, professional-class workers don't own and operate the 
>Fortune 500 and certainly don't set the priorities of the System. 
>Second of all, the System isn't the US Government -- it's the 
>world-market of capital, a.k.a. the total system, a.k.a. 
>multinational capitalism. It's a faceless, bodiless set of social 
>abstractions, very difficult to grapple with, analyze or combat, 
>despite its horrific effects on human beings.

*****   The votes of the U.N. General Assembly on the "necessity to 
lift the blockade against Cuba"

         For    Against     Countries against
                            the embargo lifting

1992    59        2        USA, Israel

1993    88        4        USA, Israel,
                            Albania, Paraguay

1994   101        2        USA, Israel

1995   117        3        USA, Israel,
                            Uzbekistan

1996   138        3        USA, Israel,
                            Uzbekistan

1997   143        3        USA, Israel,
                            Uzbekistan

1998   157        2        USA, Israel

1999   155        2        USA, Israel

2000   167        3        USA, Israel,
                            Marshall Islands

2001   167        3        USA, Israel,
                            Marshall Islands

2002   173        3        USA, Israel,
                            Marshall Islands

(Rémy Herrera, " The Effects of the US 'Embargo' Against Cuba," 
<http://www.alternatives.ca/article876.html>)   *****

*****    The UN General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority 
this November 4 to end the economic, commercial and financial 
blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States.

A resolution adopted here in that respect obtained the record total 
of 179 votes in favor, just the United States, Israel and the 
Marshall Islands against, and only two abstentions.

("179 Countries Vote against the Blockade of Cuba in the UN," Granma 
International, November 05, 2003, 
<http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/cuba/uscuba/1269.html>) 
*****

On the question of Israel and Palestinians, Washington and Tel Aviv 
get regularly reduced to a mighty alliance with Tuvalu, Nauru, the 
Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia (and 
variations thereof).

I don't know about Colombia, Guatemala, and North Korea, but as far 
as Cuba and Palestine are concerned, the UN GA voting records reveal 
that the majority of the world's power elite, backed by faceless 
multinational capitalists, are opposed to the policy of fanatical US 
imperialists, year after year.

Multinational capitalists, however, do continue to pour capital into 
the USA -- despite, not because of, their own positions on the US 
blockade of Cuba and US support for the Israeli occupation -- shoring 
up the last empire living on borrowed time.  It must be that the 
overall service of the fanatical US imperialists is so great that 
multinational capitalists' minor disagreements with them do not stand 
in the way of maintaining a mutually profitable business relationship.

American workers are not to blame for this sorry state of affairs, 
but it is also true that their weakness has made it possible, from 
which they, too, suffer, whether or not they are aware of it.
-- 
Yoshie

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