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If you look at my map,
  1. the EU is now fighting it, and it is in a gridlock wich is good as long as the Merketistas have the ideological upper hand. That's my fight, and I'm not going to concede defeat just yet.
  2. Russia is (depending on your point of view) reasserting state power (my point) or just handing power over from one generation of private oligarchs to the next (your point)
  3. China is State capitalism.
  4. Mercosur has local state interests versus foreign private interests. They seem to be moving in the "right" direction.
  5. If the African Union gat their act together, they will look more like Mercosur and less like a banana republic.
  6. The Arab world is more collectivist and the extreme version of capitalism needed for megacorps to thrive is un-Islamic.

And so on...

You may be right, but it's not a foregone conclusion.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 07:30:25 AM EST
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