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eptember 29 2002 at 10 53 pm posted in uncategorized a question i ll just toss this question out into the sea of lj communities and see if it gets any answer assuming that you re a marxist or you adhere to marxist influenced theories why would you necessarily understand globalization in all of its manifestations from my understanding of marx a global capitalist economy that breaks up old traditional modes of subsistence is a prerequisite for the creation of a proletariat the examples of the soviet union and china would seem to confirm if nothing else that it s impossible to move directly from traditional modes of subsistence to marxist communism and that it s rather difficult for a communist state to challenge a world that was either capitalistic or capitalism influenced the country formerly known as zaire wasn t a capitalist economy like 18th century britain but it was definitely plugged into global capitalism as evidenced by the west s support for mobutu so given the demonstrated inability of semiperipheral and peripheral areas of the world economy to challenge the capitalist core and the need for the entire planet to be a globally integrated economy in order to produce a world proletariat that cares about it s subordination wouldn t the best route to go be a largely uncritical acceptance of globalization followed by proletarian revolution when you get the masses in new guinea and central africa to care about global inequality written by randy mcdonald september 29 2002 at 8 33 pm posted in assorted american concerns part 2 my visits to the united states were of short duration more or less six days in virginia more or less three days in new york city still i was able to leave the united states with some definite impressions i don t think i m too badly unqualified to comment on the united states between toronto on the one hand and the united states on the other the thing that struck me most was the energy of the united states i m pretty sure that this impression didn t spring fully formed from my wide eyed islander innocence toronto struck me as more relaxed than new york city more even than richmond it wasn t a matter of ethnic diversity or lack thereof of wealth or lack thereof just a kind of doggedness the united states has a certain energy to it that canada doesn t have and that the rest of the west doesn t have the united states strikes me as a nietzchean society and not necessarily in a bad way either though nietzche s philosophy did lend itself to a justification of naziism nietzcheanism isn t destined to end in apocalypse and genocide nietzche himself disdained anti semitism and wasn t a racist and wouldn t have approved of his sister s very odd colony in paraguay still in the united states aggressiveness will to power if you will in its embrace of a dynamic capitalist economy driven by the need for schumpeterian creative destruction its social darwinism i do see a philosophy of public life that does bear some resemblance to nietzcheanism after all ayn rand is by far biggest in the united states hardly anyone reads the fountainhead outside of the us that said the united states might be nietzchean but if it is it is a kind nietzcheanism i do agree with james bodi my toronto host and friend that the us has been as decent to canada as a huge aggressive and chaotically governed polity can be i m just afraid what might happen to the us if its nietzcheanism isn t moderated written by randy mcdonald september 29 2002 at 6 51 pm posted in assorted heh you are 44 geek you are a geek liaison which means you go both ways you can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people this is an important role and one of which you should be proud in fact you can make a good deal of money as a translator normal tell our geek we need him to work this weekend you to geek we need more than that scotty you ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines geek to you i m givin her all she s got captain but we need more dilithium crystals you to normal he wants to know if he gets overtime blockquote take the polygeek quiz at thudfactor com written by randy mcdonald september 29 2002 at 5 15 pm posted in assorted american concerns part 1 it s no secret that as of late a rather big gap has opened between the united states and its western allies it s not just with a supposedly resentful france as demonstrated by the recent german federal elections it s not just with a supposedly decadent continental europe as demonstrated by the distinct possility that if tony blair does take the united kingdom into iraq alongside the united states he ll be abruptly jettisoned by labour just as thatcher was discarded by the tories a decade before it s not just with a supposedly inherently anti american european union as evidenced by the reluctance in canada and australia to go to war alongside the us it s not just iraq there s the international criminal court i m generally unconvinced by american arguments there s the kyoto protocols a flawed but necessary first step imho there s the unilateralism decried by the world in a real sense it s a case of the us versus everyone else i was visiting slayage com a daily updated links page for buffy the vampire slayer related articles when i came across the remarkable article buffy the u n slayer it was written by national review online editor jonah goldberg who stated that i n one episode buffy desperately needs the council of watchers help to fight an especially powerful enemy an ancient pagan god or some such the council attempts to use this opportunity to regain its influence over buffy forcing her to agree to all sorts of new slayer regulations and then at the end of the program it occurs to the buffmeister that she doesn t have to put up with any of it i have the power she explains to the stuffy and typically british watchers without buffy the council is nothing more than a debating society an irrelevant club at the end of the day it s buffy and not the watchers who has to do all of the fighting so she says to the watchers if you help me now i will let you in on the action don t help me and my job will be harder but your job will be irrelevant now the last part should sound familiar to anyone who knows about president bush s speech to the united nations earlier this month president bush informed the u n that if it doesn t help america slay the threat posed by baghdad the united states will do it without the u n as a result the united states job will be harder but the u n will become an irrelevant league of nations america the chosen one there is quite a lot of anti american criticism out there that is fatuous and ridiculous the united states i d wager is acting no more autocratically than oh mid 19th century britain and is no more dangerous to world peace and progress than that same hegemonic britain i d state confidently that it is certainly far more benign than comparable soviet hegemony would be or even a modern chinese indian or russian hegemony the european union would be different but it s not yet a confederative state with a single more or less coherent foreign and security policy when it does establish itself as such interesting things ahead still i find quite a few actions of the dubya administration rather galling i m particularly concerned by the impending us imperial adventure in iraq saddam s an evil man certainly the impending elimination of saddam hussein though seems like it will take place at least as much for the need to go after any state following the inconclusive engagements with al qaeda and the reality of iraq s modernization there s also dubya s family feud and concerns for cheap oil but those factors are secondary the us can pull this off of course in the narrow sense of eliminating the iraqi regime i m concerned though at the apparent lack of any viable plan for iraq after saddam the figures touted by the us as iraq s future leaders as charlie stross observes aren t very encouraging meet general nizar al khazraji former iraqi chief of staff highest level defector to the west accused of using chemical weapons against halabja in 1988 and kicking a baby to death in front of witnesses among other crimes or brigadier general najib al salihi who suppressed the post 1991 rebellion in iraq in which numerous civilians were murdered in some cases by being hanged from the gun barrels of tanks and 1 5 million iraqis fled their homes and meet ahmad al chalabi who isn t a war criminal and who runs the iraqi national congress a cia funded opposition group and is under threat of a 32 year prison sentence in jordan for embezzlement on an heroic scale let s not mention the possibilities of an israeli retaliation if saddam actually launches some weapon of mass destruction at israel and it gets through the imperfect abm defenses and the possibility that if the us does conquer iraq and does get embroiled in nation building for which the precedents are not good see somalia and south vietnam the bloody messy aftermath will wreck the united states credit with the wider world not my argument actually immannuel wallerstein s in the past summer s foreign policy i m not an american i ve no desire to be an american but from my experience in the united states though hi tom jonathan naomi derrick i can say that i quite like americans and i like the united states the us is a different country to be sure at least based on my experience in virginia and new york city but it s nicely different i really don t want the us to get badly hurt in coming months and years or hurt at all i can t help but feel though that if dubya continues to ignore the united states allies for the past half century let s the gap expand even as he gets the us involved chin deep in a long messy occupation of iraq he s going to hurt his country that s the consequences of american exceptionalism in the next post in this thread why i think the us is so different written by randy mcdonald september 27 2002 at 7 55 pm posted in assorted last winamp playlist mylène farmer mylène farmer is a part québécois singer who s quite big in the francophone world particularly france and outlying areas she can tend towards the twee but on the whole i like her she s not céline to be quite sure perhaps not enough to buy an album but there you go and here s the last playlist read the rest of this entry written by randy mcdonald september 27 2002 at 7 22 pm posted in assorted my miscellaneous winamp playlist these are all of the mp3s that don t fit into any particular category they come from a fairly broad assemblage of artists and run the gamut if anyone likes they can be requested in whole or in part i don t like some of these songs myself i must admit ah if only all remixes were good read the rest of this entry written by randy mcdonald september 27 2002 at 7 14 pm posted in assorted once more with feeling i ve got this the critically acclaimed buffy the vampire slayer musical episode from the sixth season i actually got these mp3s from buffyworld com but hey may as well share read the rest of this entry written by randy mcdonald september 27 2002 at 7 13 pm posted in assorted eurythmics winamp playlist the eurythmics are certainly one of the biggest musical groups to have emerged from early 1980 s britain formed by dave stewart and annie lennox after the breakup of the tourists the eurythmics had their first and perhaps biggest hit with sweet dreams but the eurythmics maintained themselves as a vibrantly creative and incidentally rather popular group through eight albums five videos including two video albums innumerable tours and two decades i began my mp3 career with the eurythmics this mp3 list includes insofar as i can tell two different bootleg live albums all of the eurythmics b sides some of the eurythmics collaborations with british experimentalists chris and cosey two unreleased songs i love you like a fool and the fragment of last night i dreamt somebody loved me and quite a few other live versions and remixes i particualrly like the remix of sweet dreams with the west african mory kante s yeke yeke yes i like world music more detail can be provided upon request read the rest of this entry written by randy mcdonald september 27 2002 at 7 07 pm posted in assorted older entries pages about search search site archives blogroll 3 quarks daily 80 beats andrew moseman brett israel a budding sociologist s commonplace book dan hirschman a fistful of euros acts of minor treason andrew barton alpha sources claus vistesen anthropology net anthro dendum apostrophen architectuul arnold zwicky s blog bad astronomy phil plait beyond the beyond bruce sterling bow james bow broadside blog bruce dorminey centauri dreams paul gilster charley ross meaghan charlie s diary city of brass aziz poonawalla cody delistraty daily 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