> For us in the U.S., however, U.S. imperialism remains _The_ enemy, and
> we should not count (as Dennis R seems to count) on any powers _within_
> the capitalist world as representing a more civilized capitalism.
It's not about representation. It's about the reality that IG Metall, DGB, Attac and the parties of the Euroleft are fighting the good fight against Eurocapital, a.k.a. banker to the world.
> France, after all, was the primary villain in the Rwanda
> genocide, Germany in the breakup of Yugoslavia.
The primary villains in Rwanda were Rwandans, who are neither better nor worse than the rest of humanity. Germany recognized Croatia, but the Yugoslav breakup was inevitable - the product of Yugoslavia's own internal contradictions.
One should never confuse semiperipheral regimes of state-monopoly autarkic accumulation with utopia.
-- DRR