[lbo-talk] State Expansion

[dredmond at efn.org]

On Mon, November 26, 2007 8:31 pm, abu hartal wrote:


> Social
> democracy and collective bargaining have been scrapped.

One of the weirdest contradictions of the neoliberal era is that the past
15 years have seen an unprecedented expansion of state power and
authority. The state continues to intermediate 45% of EU GDP and a third
of Japanese GDP, the East Asian developmental states continue to flourish,
and a fresh crop of developmental states in Venezuela, Vietnam and Russia
are about to reach escape velocity.

-- DRR