> 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