> [apropos....from the most recent Post-Autistic Economics Review]
> http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/review/issue23.htm [full piece]
>
> Japan, Refutation of Neoliberalism
> Robert Locke
Locke gets some things right, though he doesn't have a clue about what socialism is, and trots out the usual Soviet-bashing metaphors (never mind that the Soviet Union turned a war-ravaged collection of Fourth World economies into a superpower). Emphasizing the non-market elements of the Japanese economy is fine, but lines like this make me wonder:
> [Japan] is a socially conservative, hierarchical, technocratic, orderly,pagan,
> sexist, nationalist, racially pure, anti-communist, non-capitalist and
> anti-Semitic society.
I find it difficult to believe that Nintendo, Miyazaki, Evangelion, Beat Kitano movies, rampant environmentalism, the Zainichi, diplomatic pacifism and the JCP are just figments of my fevered Western imagination.
-- DRR