Boul-boulism

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

"When Mullah Stiglitz advised the capitalist regulators (IMF etc)
to invest directly in business ventures in Argentina,
thereby bypassing interest payments to those very
capitalist regulators, we are amazed.  Is this actually intended
to alleviate the people's distress?
--besides being counter to the instincts of capitalismo...
When the great Nobel Prize winner encourages the USA
to open its markets, free and easy, to Argentinian goods,
again--who is this supposed to benefit?  US workers?
Countries in competition with Argentina?
Argentine workers?
It is Boul-boulism."

Hah. That's good!

I remember from my Hebrew that in the early 70s and in Israel "boul-
boul (or bool-bool) meant "a complete idiot", what we in Argentina
call a "boludo / boluda". Boul-boulism is international.

But maybe Chris did not grasp an interesting point here. From the
point of view of semicolonial peoples, Stiglitz's stupid recipes have
an unexpected result: because people begin to wonder why on earth, if
it is so obvious that "the system could work differently", it
doesn't. And they end up by stumbling against the explanation:

"It is imperialism, stoopid".

That is, Stiglitz may be trying to demonstrate that not every
imperialist policy can be against the interests of people. But, again
and again, his boul-boulism transforms his attempts into gasoline
thrown into the fire.

Which is beginning to burn, slowly, in the Southern Cone.

Hugs to all,
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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