Re: Rethinking Marxism

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hi Mine,

I think that a key factor was also the collapse of 'communism'.  There is
no way that South Korea for instance would have been allowed to spin into
crisis while there was a viable communist alternative.  The irony is that
1989 spelled disaster for the anti-communist thugs promoted by the
Americans.  They were quite simply no longer necessary. I tend to think
that this was more important than the so-called independence of characters
like Suharto in Indonesia.

regards

Gary
  The moment that these countries showed some signs of economic
>growth and became more protectionist in the 80s, constituting an obstacle to
>free trade capitalism, this time the US threatened them for backing its
>support if they did not deregulate their financial markets. The US
>self-consciously created, and then facilitated the "crisis" of keiretsu
>capitalism when it forced these countries to open up their economies and
>accept neo-liberal structural adjustment programs. Asian capitalism never
>constituted an alternative to US capitalism.
>
>--
>
>Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
>PhD Student
>Department of Political Science
>SUNY at Albany
>Nelson A. Rockefeller College
>135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
>Albany, NY 12222
>
>
>
>____________NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_________
>Download Now     http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
>Request a CDROM  1-800-333-3633
>___________________________________________________________