[PEN-L:3396] Re: Re: Re: Canada

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug writes: >Here's an idea - social democracy is more compatible with
"monopolized"
>ownership structures than most social democrats would like to admit, and is
>undermined by U.S.-style financial and corporate governance arrangements.
>It's probably very difficult for U.S. social dems to admit to this, given
>this country's love of small business and populist, anti-centralizing
>political traditions.

I agree: if firms have more monopoly power (including more insulation from
international trade competition), they are more able to make concessions to
labor and the like.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html