[PEN-L:28190] Re: Re: big biz vs. big govt

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In a message dated 7/19/02 1:10:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cburford@xxxxxxxxxx writes:


> I have some sympathy with the view that socialism is a task of an
> intelligentsia and that there are new forms of struggle as well as new
> relations of production.
>
> But as far as the points above are concerned, I think that Bush, despite
> himself is having to appear to support moves in Congress for greater
> financial accountability. At this stage of the business cycle there is a
> contradiction between insider trading and outsider trading and it has
> become acutely focussed around certain individuals, who are then denounced
> as crooks.
>
> But it is part of a wider process that is commercializing government
> sectors. If you feel that this is happening in the USA, scan my post again
> on the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's comprehensive spending plans. This
> makes a major move to reduce the Home Secretary to a CEO ultimately
> responsible for performance targets in return for state income.
>
> What we are moving to is turning the functionaries of capitalism into its
> servants too, and requiring more in-process control of how capital is used
> and managed. While the New Labour British government is embracing the
> commercial ethic more and more deeply at the highest level it is pushing
> for social monitoring and transparent auditing of how accumulated surplus
> value is used.
>
> Overtly nothing at all is said about class struggle, and this marks the
> whole process out as utterly reformist, and the terms of reference to be
> studiedly neutral.  However the groundswell appears to me to move
> progressively towards more democratic accountability. In the UK Blair has
> just seen his last major ally in the trade union movement defeated in a
> controversial election by a former member of the communist party. Still
> reformist but it is a signal of where things are moving.
>
> Chris Burford


Acknowledged.

A sector of the working class in America is upset about the non accountability of the administrators in high places, their pension funds and savings. Bush is being compelled to take action to quiet the fears of the working class about tomorrow and this is a form of struggle that I did not indicate. Great observation.

Melvin P.