dredmond at efn.org wrote:
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> On Sat, September 22, 2007 10:07 am, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> > We live in the post-Marxist age.
>
> Not at all. We live in the age of developmental states, which are slugging
> it out with the robot legions of multinational capitalism, sort of like
> the human-Godzilla alliance against neocolonial space aliens in "Godzilla:
> Final Wars". These are exciting times!
>
No doubt were they to triumph in this (actually imaginary) struggle power would reduce their level of savagery to that of the u.s. and european ruling classes, but at the present they cannot for the most part afford (or don't think they can afford) even as low a level of oppression as is exihbited in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Jena. They are lesser evils only in that their power is less.
Carrol