[lbo-talk] Re: Political Cartography

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Nov 21 12:18:04 PST 2004


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> Both Sweden and the US are capitalist dictatorships in
> which the workers writhe under the iron heel of
> capital. Right?
>

No, but both are capitalist nations, in which the welfare of workers depends on how much generosity they can force out of capitalists -- at which task Swedish workers have been a bit more successful (so far) than u.s. workers. I presume in a socialist society most or all of what we call welfare wouldn't have any special name. Calling a socialist state a welfare state is merely sloppy diction, not a political issue.

Coming across such sloppy diction in a freshman theme one would underline it, scribble D? in the margin, and go on to more important things.

Carrol



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