----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
From: Jack Pauwels To: stephen gowans Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 8:05 PM Subject: Fw: Bush-Kerry
USA: REGIME CHANGE, OR SYSTEM CHANGE?
By Jacques Pauwels, author of
The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War,
James Lorimer, Toronto, 2002
That the USA is entangled in a vicious war in Iraq is not the fault of President Bush, but of America's economic system. Without wars, America's unbridled brand of capitalism can no longer function properly. Every tenant of the White House is aware of this and must act accordingly, and it does not matter at all if his name is Bush or Clinton, or if his party affiliation is Republican or Democrat.
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Naive functionalism.
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/socialtheoryeurope/STESA-03/Lars_Bo_Kaspersen.pdf THE 'WARFARE-PARADIGM' IN HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: WARFARE AS A DRIVING HISTORICAL FORCE Lars Bo Kaspersen Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen Linnesgade 22 1361 Copenhagen K Denmark +45 35 32 39 46 email: lbk at sociology.ku.dk