[lbo-talk] Jeff Davis Won In The End ?

[joanna bujes]

Can you be more specific? What do you mean by semi-peripheries? It seems 
like the overall plan is to leverage as much as they can out of the old 
socialist-funded infrastructure and human capital -- that is, buy what's 
profitable for nothing including the very well-educated people, use the 
threat of the humble east european worker to frighten the west-european 
worker into giving up as much as possible, let infrastructure and social 
services decline (both east and west)...and laugh all the way to the 
bank.  Granted there's a lot more resistance to this there than here, 
but that's the scenario I keep hearing about.

But it could be that I'm reading the wrong press. I'd be perfectly happy 
to be wrong.

Joanna

Dennis Redmond wrote:


>>We have Mexico
>>and Latin America; they have eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet union.
>>Same forces at work, same arrogance, same conflict....
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>...but a very different capitalism, and very different state structures:
>the European Union is financing genuine development in its
>semi-peripheries.
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>-- DRR
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