Re: Unemployment and Keynes

[maxsaw@xxxxxxx]

>Is Cornwall advocating workers forgoing militancy
>in order to get job security, employment increases, industrial
>democracy, and redistributive government policies???
Cornwall can speak for himself better than I can, so you ought to
check his article.  Nobody is suggesting that if workers just sit
on their asses their passivity will be rewarded with anything at
all.  The question is not militancy pro and con, but how best to
employ what political victories may be attainable.
>What's needed instead is a new kind of
>militancy, more political and more internationalist in orientation.
I think this is quite right.  There is some question I gather, since
I'm not much of a macroeconomist, as to whether a single country,
even a large one like the U.S., can use Keynesian policy tools to
boost employment.
   There is also obvious scope for collaboration among workers across
national boundaries on such questions as labor standards, human
rights, capital mobility, etc.