> Yeah, Dennis wants to have it both ways, or lots of ways actually,
> whatever it takes to bolster his BRIC valorization (which has replaced the
> pro-Europe/East Asia line he spouted up until very recently):
No party lines here, it's just learning from history. Until 1998, East Asia and Europe were the only places which had full-fledged developmental states, so that's what I focused on. Since then, developmental states have spread like wildfire in places I didn't expect.
More importantly, the developmental state is not a monolithic entity. Like the 3D videogame culture (and I don't think it's an accident games take off in the late 1990s, at the exact moment the BRICs take off, there's some affinity or correspondence there I haven't figured out just yet), it's a field of tensions and contradictions -- some scary and regressive, some emancipatory and productive. But the thing itself is a geopolitical reality.
-- DRR