I found the essay, which reached me via a friend in Belgrade, simply
fascinating. A most refreshing article, with more intelligence
embedded than any report presented by Powell or Blair to the
international community (er, that was intended as a flattering thing
to say and resulted in a bad joke, but will leave it there for comic
effect).
I have long been eerily feeling that after the destruction of the
Soviet Union, the global scenario is unstoppably returning to a mix
of the pre-1914 and pre-1939 situtations. Anyone else sharing this?
It would only be _reasonable_, if you come to think of it. The common
enemy torn down, we cannot expect imperialist bourgeoisies to escape
their fate: they must fight between them for global domination.
The American bourgeoisie hoped to estabilize the situation in its
almost exclusive benefit, by means of economic hegemony, global
control of fossil energy resources, currency dictatorship and, last
but not least, the global system of militarized terrorism built
around the war against socialism, a system that due to historical
reasons (wars were fought on European terrain) had the U.S. Dept. of
Defence at its core.
Economic hegemony fainted, currency dictatorship begins to come under
attack, that bothersome "old Europe" -Bush's words, not mine: BTW, a
friend of mine here says that "the most intelligent trait in Bush is
his face of stupid brat"- raises the head again, former tame subjects
begin to challenge American diktat (1). The Euro, according to the
essay, menaces to challenge both American financial hegemony and
energy control. Well, that's really a good reason to go for war!
"If we are to return to closed trade areas like in the 30s", the
American bourgeois seems to think, "we shall return on OUR own
terms". Irak signs the bill today, as Yugoslavia did yesterday.
Sozialismus oder Barbarismus.
N O T E
(1) In this connection, I suggest you to follow the recent American
declarations on the current political trends in --Argentina of all
places!
In fact, these alarmed utterings are not ungrounded. All the
"feasible" Presidential candidates are aping the advanced nationalist
discourse of Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, which shows the change of mood of
this country. As an a-list exclusive, I dare to inform the members
that within a few weeks, the results of the Argentinean elections
might well shake the world.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de
Buenos Aires, 1822
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