File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-02-25.170, message 31


Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:39:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: marxism-international-digest V1 #414


On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:

> At 4:44 PM -0500 2/21/97, Gerald Levy wrote:
> 
> >The existence of the USSR after Stalin's rise to power didn't represent a
> >"real threat of expropriation" for the major imperialist powers. Indeed,
> >the whole relationship of those imperialist powers to the USSR was based
> >on the recognition that the USSR would do everything in its power to
> >subvert international revolutions.
> 
> Oh, so that's why the U.S. adopted NSC-68 and spent 40 years devoting its
> foreign policy to the destruction of the USSR, right?

NSC-68 and other documents written by world policymakers during this
period represent successful ideological attempts at legitimating
postcolonial transnationalization of capitalism. U.S. policymakers are
quite clear on this matter. Rightwing organic intellectuals, such as
Samuel Huntington, openly admit to the real intention of U.S. behavior in
the Cold War: "You may have to sell [intervention in the Third World] in
such a way as to create the misimpression that it is the Soviet Union you
are fighting. That is what the United States has done ever since the
Truman Doctrine." The "Grand Area" was implemented through the Marshall
Plan, and was for the express purpose of restoring the industrial and
commercial might of the North against the South. The North-South dynamic,
that is, core exploitation and coercive domination over the periphery, has
been a reality for centuries. U.S. policy towards the South, i.e.,
imperialism, only took on a new justification through a redefinition of
the conflict from North-South to East-West. Same game. New weltanschauung. 

AA



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