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Interesting, I'll have to digest it.
I remain skeptical of the Marxist Intellectual cant (Marxism is still a religion to me. Maybe ok as a descriptivce system, but for prescriptions.....?
Still, this was very interesting: ." In the United States, you're not deindustrializing as much as reindustrializing in a new way. The Americans are turning the economy into a war economy. Its greatest product consists of missiles, rockets, satellites, space technologies, weaponry, and everything else is being geared around that. They're ready to let the Japanese, the Asians, generally, produce the textiles and let the Mexicans and Third World peoples produce the blue collar type industrial goods of traditional capitalism. They'll always maintain enough of that in America, by the way, in order to support the arms industry or at least to meet their minimal needs. "
jresta said:he then goes on to talk about moving jobs offshore - full text
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/raddemocracy.html
Interesting, I'll have to digest it.
I remain skeptical of the Marxist Intellectual cant (Marxism is still a religion to me. Maybe ok as a descriptivce system, but for prescriptions.....?
Still, this was very interesting: ." In the United States, you're not deindustrializing as much as reindustrializing in a new way. The Americans are turning the economy into a war economy. Its greatest product consists of missiles, rockets, satellites, space technologies, weaponry, and everything else is being geared around that. They're ready to let the Japanese, the Asians, generally, produce the textiles and let the Mexicans and Third World peoples produce the blue collar type industrial goods of traditional capitalism. They'll always maintain enough of that in America, by the way, in order to support the arms industry or at least to meet their minimal needs. "
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