Re: [A-List] What rivalry?

["Tariq" <tariq200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Bob and Rob,

In your analysis of things, besides being much sense but you miss counting
the impact of people, particularly in numbers when fully riled up.

The sutures in Europe along ethnic-linguistic-religious lines are showing
cracks. If that be not enough the coloured people who constitute over five
of the six billion humans on the planet will soon wriggle out from under the
remnants of the colonial past, the remnants who perform the imperialists in
proxy.

Tariq

From: "Rob Schaap" <rschaap@iprimus.com.au>
To: <a-list@lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] What rivalry?


 G'day Bob,

 Ain't a structurally significant lump of US debt held by the Euro (and
Japanese) bourgeoisie?  We should also bear in mind that recent imperial
pronouncements suggest a pan-Anglo-Saxon dimension informs the fond
imaginings of the currently ascendant elements of the US ruling class.
 The policy explicitly aims at keeping the rest of the west firmly in its
place, and that's gonna genuinely and durably antagonise the rest of the
'first world' and the capacity of their bourgeoisies continually to develop
avenues of accumulation.  Or do you think the trilateralist big-B
bourgeoisie is so integrated as to circumvent such problems? That's not a
rhetorical question, I just don't know.

 What think you, comrade?

 Cheers,
 Rob.

 Bob Enoch wrote:

 What is meant by "inter-imperialist rivalry" in a militarily uni-polar
world?  What is the hard evidence of this rivalry in the case of the EU and
the Empire? Rivalry implies not only a conflicting interest, but also the
ability and the will, to pursue this interest in the face of ones' "rival"

 No sensible Euro bourgeois could today contemplate a policy that might lead
to confrontation with the New World Order.  That is the purpose of
full-spectrum dominance.
I think the elites of Europe understand this very well, and the most
powerful have opted for Imperial citizenship.
What choice have they? The basis for international law is now (explicitly)
the carrier group.

The parliamentary politics of Europe require that there be some gnashing of
teeth, and beating of breasts about loss of sovereignty and cultural
integrity.And few Euro politicians will match the evident enthusiasm of
Blair for this sobering new order.

But in the end, lacking the military power to sustain "rivalry", sensible,
canny European elites will continue to accommodate themselves to the only
full-spectrum state apparatus in town.

 Bob