<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=monacojerry@gmail.com href="mailto:monacojerry@gmail.com">Jerry Monaco</A> </DIV>For instance intra-Third-World economic connections between Brasil-India-South Africa is also looked at as a bad-deal by many U.S. corporations.  There was an article in a foreign policy journal I read in the 1980s tht predicted such deals and said that they were a danger to the U.S. which was why the author advocated a "slow" transition in South Africa.  Now it seems that these elite fears of intra-Third World economic alliances are coming true.  </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, this is actually not a problem for imperialism. It is better considered 'subimperialism', and indeed is a useful if not necessary component of accumulation by dispossession. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Working closely with transnational capital and multilateral agencies, the governments/capital of India, Brazil and South Africa are deputy sheriffs, legitimisers of neoliberalism, and looters of their regional hinterlands.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>