Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Wojtek S Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 9:02 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Revolution on the March
[WS:] If you believe that Capital has no national institutional identities, I am afraid it is you who live in a bubble. The current Capital is pretty much a a Reagan-Thatcher creation. Take the US out of the equation and you will have a very different animal.
Wojtek
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> The US Empire's Middle Eastern client states are withering away, just like
> the Soviet Union's proxy states in Eastern Europe.
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> You do live in a bubble all your own.
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> The only "empire" is the Empire of Capital.
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> When the current struggles are over, if all goes well, these states will
> _sdtill_ belong to the Empire of Capital, but they will be _independent
> members. Their working people will probably but not certainly be better
> off.
> In any case, the workers of independent nation are in a better position to
> relate to international struggles as well as fight for their own immediate
> interests.
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> That is far from nothing, but it also is far from weakening _any_ empire
in
> the present.
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> Carrol
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