Re: Deutschland Schon Wieder

[Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Dennis R Redmond wrote:

> >On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx wrote:
>
> >> seems that Germany's defeat at WWI did not seem to effect finance capital
> > >that much, given US aid.  so what was the German  bourgeoisie actually
> > suffering from (or different factions of bourgeoisie)?
>
> >Most likely semiperipheral status in the world-system plus a lack of a
> >welfare state. The former made it impossible to borrow cheaply from
> >abroad, the latter ruled out the Swedish solution, i.e. Keynesian
> >reflation.

During the debates about war reperations, I remember Keynes arguing that the
allies, particulary the British, should be less coercive with enforcing payment
of reperations on Germany, or change the priority of payments at least-- an
idea, which was actually championed by American international bankers who were
agents for reperation payments created under the Dawes plan of US.  It seems
Keynes' bourgeois anticipation matched with the German nationalist critique of
liberal order at that time.


> >Fascism was the logical, if diabolical, response of the ruling
> >elites: the violent seizure of foreign assets, plus internal military
> >Keynesianism (this is why Fascism was an international virus, as >opposed
> >to something specific to Germany). Adorno has a wonderfully acute >account
> >of Fascism in "Minima Moralia" which points out how overdetermined >by
> >historical forces the Nazi regime was, from its temporary victories to
> >inevitable defeat.
>

*negative dialectics*, that is. You are an Adorno expert Dennis, but I still
haven't grasped Adorno's problem with Marx's dialectic.



>
> >-- Dennis

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Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
Albany, NY 12222



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