[PEN-L:4529] Re: Why Kosovo

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't mean to be dogmatic, but capitalism and capitalist imperialism have always needed war as an institution. It is the most explicit form of creative destruction.

Less abstractly, with the end of the Cold War, and a form of wholesale "surrender" of the socialist world, imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism , is desparate for new enemies to rationalize  military spending. Otherwise , the military industrial complex, the mode of destruction, would suffer extreme economic depression.

Peace is deadly for capitalism.

Charles Brown


>>> Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 03/25/99 01:13AM >>>
Is it that the Dems. ratings in foreign policy is slipping?
Is it to prove that they are tough?  [A local reporter says that Clinton
is bombing more countries than any previous president.  I suspect that
more countries were involved in WWII bombing.]
Is it that Kosovo is important for pipelines from the Caucacuses?
Is it just to test new hardware?
Is it just stupidity?
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Michael Perelman
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