Re: [Pen-l] Re: Long-term Capitalist Interest [was: Obama intends to stay in Iraq]

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

me:
>> What do you think would be best for the long-term interests of the US ruling class? partition into three sub-nations (à la Biden)? Does the ruling class really care about the US economy (and its people) or simply about their own finances?<<

Louis Proyect wrote:
> Well, I don't quite know what you mean by "their own finances". Like their checking accounts or something?
For all practical purposes, the US economy amounts to their own finances. <

Sorry about the ambiguity. what I was suggesting is that if the
capitalists are totally global or financial in their orientation, they
don't care at all about the fate of the US economy. Their profits
could come from China, Sri Lanka, or wherever. The US could decline to
being like Guatemala and they wouldn't care. "The capitalists have no
country."

Of course, if the decline of the US economy undermines world law and
order -- and their property and profits -- that's another matter.

>...  That's what people like Soros were saying. ...<

Soros is indeed one of those people who tries to speak for the
long-term collective interests of his class.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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