RE: [Marxism] Stan Goff and "economism"

["David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I glean a different point from this part of Stan's article.

The very value of the dollar is predicated in part on the US's "willingness
and ability" to use military force. That twenty-five percent of world
resources the five percent of US Northamericans have at our command is no
gift, but tribute. As Henry C.K. Liu says, the rest of the world produces
material things and exports them while the US exports dollars. Take away
America's power to enforce this international division of wealth militarily
and the dollar will plummet, or to put it another way, the rest of the world
will stop giving away its labor and treasure if it is not coerced. It
follows that it is a lie to tell Americans that they will be better off in
any conventional bottom line sense by shifting government resources away
from military spending and into human needs because the empire will collapse
and with it our lion's share of world production.

It further follows that our lives will have to improve in some other way
than by the US increasing its share of world wealth and resources and we
should be talking about that.

But I am also interested in Stan's more direct idea for what to do next,
i.e. come to Ft. Bragg for a national demonstration on March 19th. How about
it? Is it a good idea to raise this with all antiwar forces as the way to
have the greatest impact on March 19th? As far as I know, this is the only
offer on the table for a national event on March 19th. True or not?

David McDonald
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