Good point scorp, but I would add that the McNamarra model was not so much a production model as a social and political model, one that ensured a particular versoin of the US post war social settlement. It's time is indeed over, but the casues of that go much further than the fact that Detroit refuses to produce vehicles that people want to buy. it is as much an outcome that the 1950's and 60's are long over, and that the model McNamara and the rest of the cold war liberals strived go cement in the US is one that the …
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Shorter wolf. It's all her fault because the State cannot be expected to carry out its most fundamental role-protect people rfom violence and assault, especially when a person is incarcerated under the direct control of the State! Really, I have seen some really stupid 'blame the victim' posts in my time, but this takes the cake. In wolf's view, if you do the crime, you not only do the time, but you should expect to be raped and assaulted as well. This is a perfect example of the inability of right wing reactionaries to understanbd the most basic precepts of liberal …
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What the US labor movement needs is an analysis of the distorting effect of US imperialism on every aspect of working people's lives in that country. Whether it's Change to Win or the AFL-CIO, the great silence in the US labor movement is the silence concerning the US' role across the world, including interference in other countries' labour movements, something which has occurred everywhere, including in my own, English speaking country. The Democrats are simply incapable of mounting any serious political challenge to the policies of the Republicans, because in reality, the argument amongst US elites is not that there is …
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I think Susan has put it rather well. This adminsistration has managed to 'debase' the $US, all without any help from the 'reds under the beds'. The 'free market' is an ideological abstraction that obscures more thn ait illuminates, and left unchecked, will kill the very thing it is supposed to underpin-capitlaism. In the US the situation is absolutely gobsmacking to anyone living abroad. The 'reserve currency' so important to the prestige of the US abroad, is slowly deflating, and risking a turn to the Euro by holders of $US, meaning most of south east Asia. When and if that happens, …
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Who hooo! Rabbit eh? Get a grip! BTW, what's your prediction for the amount of time the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans will be content to see their foreign reservs slowly deflate in value as the US palms off its debt to the rest of the world, onto those countries, full of hard working people whose efforts permit US citizens to consume beyond their means? How long do you think the rest of he world will be happy to hang around while the US threatens to bomb the crap out of anybi\ody that doesn't accept their particular nostrums for the ideal …
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