[lbo-talk] RE: Activism/Socialism in U.S

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Feb 9 17:08:36 PST 2004


Doug Henwood wrote:


> uvj at vsnl.com wrote:


> >Why does the US capitalism, the richest, the most powerful and
technological
> >country in the world, need to base its rule on a primitive ideology as
racism?
>
> You've never been here, have you? The level and prevalence of crude
> religiosity would also strike you as incompatibility with wealth and
> technological sophistication.

No, I have never been to the US. You seem to be saying that its primarily a question of culture and ideology in the US. But to rephrase the question: Can the US business not afford a welfare state? I suppose there are different ways of exercising power and there are different forms of surplus value. (If I am not mistaken, Sohn- Rethel in his book Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism suggests German fascism as a form of class rule founded on absolute surplus value, while German social democracy as a form of class rule based on relative surplus value. )

Ulhas



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