Subject: Re: Letter from Yugo factory
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:31:47 +1000


I think not because rebuilding after war can make a lot of profit and also mean that after the war the economy would be more united states 
centered than russian. And the martial plan is probably what made america one of the richest economies around today and made it the dominant power in the west,
BB

At 1999-04-20 04:31:40.210000, 
mokey wrote:
> 
> Nico wrote these stunningly silly sentences 
> >this is the war inside the war -- to destroy the capitalist 
> competitions.
> >NATO bombing is also the pursit of the destruction of the 
> yugoslavian  
> >economy since 1982. To attack military targets is only pretext.
> 
> you know, for all your stupid postings, i always thought that you 
> were just
> a mislaid soul, and that deep down, you had something sensible to 
> say.  but
> this shows that you have yet to reach that point on your road to 
> damascus.
> there are no capitalistic gains to be got out of this war.  cruise 
> missiles
> cost a million dollars each - money that's blown to bits, not made 
> by
> industrialists et al.  after all this madness is over, someone is 
> going to
> have to pay to rebuild the roads, bridges, factories etc, and i 
> think that
> someone's gonna have to be uncle sam.  this war is strange because 
> there
> are very few capitalist interests at stake (that is, unless you 
> listen to
> SWP propaganda)
> 
> i get what you're saying Nico.  it's the normal Marxist rubbish 
> that's read
> into everything which happens in this crazy world of ours.  but 
> there's
> rarely much money to be made out of war - in fact a lot of people 
> tend to
> get poorer.  as Orwell showed us in 1984, war is actually a 
> particularly
> good way to make sure that no one benefits.  it consumes resources 
> that
> could be used to make the capitalists rich.  it kills lots of 
> people that
> could be otherwise used in the labour market.  so please please 
> please
> think before you send your next post.
> 
> colin


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