[lbo-talk] ciao, GM & Chrystler

[Politicus E.]

Wojtek wrote "[t]he military-industrial complex or the prisons also create a
lot of jobs. Should we increase spending on them too?"  But there is a basic
problem with your reasoning.  Although your logic exhibits an appreciation
of the complex of factors that must be reckoned with in matters of
industrial policy, to compare the automobile industry with the
prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex is Philistine
if we bear in mind the political aspects of your comparison.  The masses of
the developing countries are oppressed, on a daily basis, by the pretensions
and realities of the US Empire.  African-Americans and Latinos suffer
significant material and political deprivations on account of the
prison-industrial complex.  Such matters must have political precedence over
the problem of global warming in the first instance (which is not, of
course, to deny the political importance of dealing with global warming).

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