Re: Cold war ('Imperialism has never had it so good')

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 6:27 PM 7/16/96, Rahul Mahajan wrote:

>>You remind me of Seymour Melman's idiotic dismissal of me as an "apologist
>>for the Pentagon" when I tore apart his inflated views of the economic
>>malignancy of U.S. military spending. Glorifying? Fuck you, comrade.
>
>It's possible to inflate the economic malignancy of US military spending?
>Did he go farther on this than Chomsky does?

Melman traces the decline of U.S. industry almost entirely to the Pentagon,
and refuses to concede that DoD subsidies had any positive effects on
high-tech industries. He also used to claim that the U.S. and USSR were
indistinguishably state capitalist economies, run by their military
establishments. He seems not to have more than a passing familiarity with
NSC-68 - unlike Chomsky, of course.

Doug

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