Re: Democracy or Empire?

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xxxx:

>Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
>>  On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:10:29 -0500 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
>>  <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > > >Hence the usefulness of the Democratic Party & liberal
>>  > > >internationalism in America....
>>  >
>>  > There is nothing useful about the Democratic Party and  "liberal
>>  > internationalism" in America.
>>
>  > >I think that Yoshie means that they are useful to the ruling class.
>
>Jim, I don't know what is meant about "usefulness of liberalism" frankly. My
>point is (was) that the liberal ideology which is designed to obscure the
>contradictions of capitalism can no longer hide those contradictions. Third
>world poverty, ecological devastations, increasing inequalities among
>nations, wars, famines, diseases, energy crisis etc., prove how unstable the
>capitalist system is. They all point out to a zero usefulness of liberalism.
>Can liberalism still continue to veil capitalism's contradictions?

 From your signature, I see that you are working on your dissertation
at SUNY at Albany (Nelson A. Rockefeller College!).  What is the
prevailing opinion of the working masses -- white-collar,
blue-collar, pink-collar, etc. -- of Albany, NY, with regard to
capitalism's contradictions: Third World poverty, ecological
devastations, increasing inequalities among nations, wars, famines,
diseases, etc.?  Do you ever talk to them?

Yoshie