Re: "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, May 30, 2003 at 08:16:28 (-0700) Devine, James writes:
>One thing this discussion misses is that the US elite isn't really against
>state ownership of the means of production and control of the economy. It's
>against state ownership of the means of production and control of the
>economy that don't help the elite's own power and the greater glory of US
>capital. Thus, they're in favor of US control of Iraq, at least for now.
>
>"Free markets" are convenient slogans -- attractive to many people -- but
>_in practice_ the US government has constantly violated the official
>principles that go with that slogan.

It's worse than this: free markets are a sure recipe for disaster for
whoever gets tangled in them.  That's why elites won't stand to be
exposed to them for two seconds, and why they favor them as weapons
of mass deprival and elite enrichment.  The free market is, in fact,
a weapon to be used against the weak.


Bill