Re: AUT: Neo-Keynsian Globalism?

["Battaglia comunista" <mauro.jr@xxxxxx>]

Paul B wrote:

<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I have no set answers or ideas about any of the above at present,
does

> anybody on this list have any?


<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>A little, *<italic>out-of-date</italic>* idea: maybe to be anti-neoliberist without
being anti-capitalist (i.e. communist, in the proper sense) leads
inevitably to flank the left-democratic bourgeoisie. Maybe, this has
seen by the socialdemocrats of all the times as a good tactic in
order to reach, step by step, something similar to socialism.

Maybe, many of the anti-neoliberist are simply soc-dem.

R.g.

mauro.jr


</color>From:           	<color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Paul Bowman <<pbowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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</color>Subject:        	<color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>AUT: Neo-Keynsian Globalism?

</color>Date sent:      	<color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:04:28 -0000

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</color>A spectre is haunting world economists, the spectre of Keynsianism...


To name but a few anecdotal sightings George Soros, international
forex

speculator extraordinaire denounces the debilitating effects of

unrestricted capital flows into (and out of) "underdeveloped"
economies

- releases book entitled "The Crisis of Global Capitalism" with an

apparently straight face; the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
(Minister

for Economy) delivers under-reported speech in New York expressing

opinion that some degree of restraint must be exercised on the global

market "that explicitly refers to the best of the tradition of
Keynes" -

in the context of an EU in which now 13 out of 15 governments are
headed

by parties nominally in the social-democrat tradition, this is not as

"against the current" as it would have been three years ago; even
John

"Isn't-he-dead-yet?" Paul II gets in on the act denouncing global

liberal capitalism as a force for evil.


Of course words are cheap and the whole affair so far doesn't amount
to

a heap of beans. Nonetheless those of us in the anti-capitalist camp
who

have seen the slogan of "resistance against neoliberalism" rise to be

embraced by much of the contestationary movements that have spent the

last two decades fighting the strategies of monetarism, austerity and

deregulation adopted by the IMF, GATT/WTO, and OECD governments in
the

70s, have to wonder if the neo-Keynsians are not considering the

possibility of recuperating some of the anti-neoliberalism movement
for

the purposes of stabilising global capitalism.


As a micro-illustration there was a story on a-infos today about
Polish

farmers blockading the German border against import dumping of cheap

pork. The author of the piece (see
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos00205.html

</underline></color>) asks:


	"Is there an official opinion of the PGA concerning centralized

protectionist

	instruments used by the national governments? (The farmers

	are asking for more border taxes). Our group in Poland still

hasn't

	decided what to think about this issue."


(PGA being presumably People's Global Action network in this
context).


I have no set answers or ideas about any of the above at present,
does

anybody on this list have any?


cheers,



Paul Bowman

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</underline></color>For every problem, there is one solution

which is simple, neat and wrong.

                                    -- H. L. Mencken



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