Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:49:36 -0600
Subject: Re: BHA: RE: Social and Historic forces as empirical proof in TR?




Daniel Pinéu wrote:
> 
> Carrol,
> 
> What exactly do you my when you say there is "no global governance", and that governance is the sole province of States? Perhaps you mean there is no global government?
> 
> I´m somewhat bewildered, care to expand on that?
> 
> Or do you actually mean that international organizations, among other non-state actors, do not create dynamics of their own in managing political issues at a global scale?

"Dynamics of their own" is a bit vague. Any set of relations (e.g.,
hunting and gathering, capitalism) 'create' a dynamic of their own.
That's sort of tautological. The Cold War created a "dynamic of its
own," making possible, for example, the victories of the civil-rights
struggle in the u.s. No Soviet Union, probably no Birmingham bus strike.

And so I would assume that an imperialist war of aggression carried out
through or with the machinery of the United Nations would be different
from the same war carried out within other structures. But it is really
deceptive to call the United Nations or the WTO or the Pan-American
Union or the IMF _governing_ bodies. State power (military power, police
power) still resides in nation states. To pretend otherwise creates
illusions that seriously hamper the major issue of our time: the
struggle against u.s. imperialism.

Carrol



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