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Topic: The hidden hand will never work without a hidden fist.
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N.Beltov
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posted 17 September 2005 06:12 PM
Yea, well given out friendly economists' conflation of the Labour Theory of Value with the Theory of Surplus Value (can't find the thread for the moment) it's clear that he hasn't read Capital or any other of the more critical histories of capitalism that deal with such issues as clearance of the commons and so on. The quote that I provided, by the way, comes from John Bellamy Foster's Review of the Month called Naked Imperialism in which Foster tries to show the continuity between the policies of the current US administration and past ones. Foster again: quote: The argument advanced here points to a different conclusion. U.S. militarism and imperialism have deep roots in U.S. history and the political-economic logic of capitalism. As even supporters of U.S. imperialism are now willing to admit, the United States has been an empire from its inception. “The United States,” Boot writes in “American Imperialism?,” “has been an empire since at least 1803, when Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory.
I like this guy. He combines traditional "Red" views with a very developed "Green" awareness. quote: Foster: The unprecedented dangers of this new global disorder are revealed in the twin cataclysms to which the world is heading at present: nuclear proliferation and hence increased chances of the outbreak of nuclear war, and planetary ecological destruction. These are symbolized by the Bush administration’s refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to limit nuclear weapons development and by its failure to sign the Kyoto Protocol as a first step in controlling global warming.
Gotta go for now.
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