[lbo-talk] Liberal imperialism

[Dennis Perrin]

> What gets creepy is folks mindlessly using past abuses of Chinese workers 
> to
> justify sanctioning abuses of those same workers today.   "Imperialist."
> "Racist."   This is the left defense of Chinese and allied global 
> capitalist
> exploitation.  Those elites  are getting mind-bogglingly wealthy at the
> expense of both Chinese and other workers around the world, but anyone
> fighting it is attacked by those who are still playing pretend that 
> Chinese
> is somehow a socialist opponent of the US.
>
> Nathan

To adapt, slightly, Arthur Jensen's speech to Howard Beale in "Network":

"What do you think the Chinese talk about in their councils of state -- Mao 
Tse-tung? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision 
theories, minimax solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of 
their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a 
world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of 
corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. 
The world is a business, Mr. Beale!"

Dennis