[PEN-L:29536] Re: Re: Liu on Stiglitz

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> And he's making a significant contribution to making the world a less
> brutal place - more than anyone on this or any other listserv. More
> than, say, a certain hedge fund guy who lives on the east side of
> Manhattan who issues grand pronunciamenti from time to time.
>
> Doug

Actually Henry Liu does lots of things behind the scenes that might
actually have an impact on whether or not China retains the kind of
economy that Stiglitz endorsed at the conclusion of his interview. I
wish that Henwood would drop this kind of ad hominem attack. He tells
people in Essen that "there are very few Marx-o-philes on Wall Street."
If this is supposed to be important after some fashion, one would expect
Henry's point of view to be a credit rather than a debit to our movement
broadly interpreted. Finally, the question of making the world a "less
brutal place" seems to put the cart before the horse. I seriously doubt
if Soros or Stiglitz would be speaking out today unless there were huge
mobilizations around the world for the past five years or so against the
IMF. In many ways, they are the "doves" of the current globalization
confrontation in the same way that voices such as Gene McCarthy  emerged
in the 1960s. Without the mass demonstrations, there would have not been
peace candidates.


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Louis Proyect
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