Re: [Marxism] Kevin Phillips on the global crisis of US capitalism -

["NÃstor Gorojovsky" <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/4/8, Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx <Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx>:
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>  In the early 1980s, an American sociologist by the name of Mancur Olson
>  published a book called The Rise and Decline and Nations. Its thesis was that
>  decline comes because after many years of success, a nation's political and
>  economic arteries get so clogged with special-interest groups that its
>  life-giving circulation of ideas and elites is impaired. Countries that are  
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>  wars and occupied receive a new lease on life because their old  
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>  structures get uprooted.

A most interesting opinion. Which, for instance, goes a far stretch
ahead in explaining why the paramount interest of the Arg ruling
classes, after the 1982 Malvinas War was  to dampen, dilute and throw
into oblivion the debate on the reasons for defeat.

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NÃstor Gorojovsky
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