Re: Re: Walden Bello on dismantling corporations and their proxies

[Peter Dorman <dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fair enough, but I have more humor at the moment than time.  The funny
thing is that I've been studying and thinking about these questions for
over 20 years and have written next to nothing.  (2 - 1/2 very obscure
articles.)  I promise that, if I ever get some time off, I'll give your
challenge the kind of response it obviously deserves.

Peter

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> >Marxists would be free to study and write about M-C-M'.
> >
> >Peter
>
> Seriously, Peter, you criticize Bello for being "much too reformist,"
> but your program -- "to socialize (which is not necessarily to put
> under public ownership) corporations national and transnational, and
> to craft a set of rules and governing procedures to make possible
> trade without the lash of global competitiveness that has poisoned
> every national political economy" -- looks to me to be _also_ much
> too reformist & utopian to boot. :)
>
> Not that you can't criticize Bello for being "much too reformist,"
> but if that's your criticism, your reader naturally expects more than
> what you offered.
>
> Yoshie