RE: Re: Hutton's declaration of war 2

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:32:27 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
>If once the United States personified the
>future, increasingly the EU is demonstrating how
> inter-dependence can be managed and nurtured.

LP: This must be some kind of joke. Anti-immigrant violence is spreading
across Europe while the "third way" politicians are doing everything
they can to placate xenophobia. ...

JD: Chris' comment really does seem to be a joke. The EU is run by a bunch
of Eurocrats, who are in turn run by the bankers and their ilk. Thus, the
European central bank is hooked on recession to avoid inflation at all costs
and the various governments are tied into fiscal austerity. As I've said
before, the EU's top-down imposition of multi-ethnic unity seems designed to
spark xenophobia.

I guess what Chris B. is saying is that the EU shows how capitalist elites
can work together, while the US is the arrogant unilateralist. Though I do
think we should avoid such European tribal wars as 1914-18 and 1940-45, we
have to remember that the capitalist elites unify against the workers...
JD