Re: Re: Milosevic out?

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie wrote:
> Yes, and I'm saying that the opposition to neoliberal & humanitarian
> imperialism is the key to the future of the Left at the core and the periphery.

then we agree. I've been saying for a while that socialism is likely to
arise as a result of the struggle against the emergent (capitalist-run)
world government or rather in the effort to force that embryonic government
(US/NATO/IMF/etc.) to submit to democratic control, just as socialist
movements arose in 19th century Europe as part of the effort to make
capitalist national governments to submit to democratic control. The
somewhat incoherent demos[*] at Seattle, Prague, and elsewhere are just the
beginning in this view. One of the big things that's made the socialist
movement weak is the massive division between the rich "core" countries and
the poor "periphery" countries, which caused the split between social
democracy in the former and "Stalinism" (national-development socialism) in
the latter. With the capitalist globalization, a lot of those divisions
will break down (if we're lucky). I'm afraid the process is going to
painful, though.

[*] Is it a coincidence that the plural of an abbreviation for
"demonstration" is the same as the Greek word for "the people"?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine