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Socio-Economics
Here's a link to Amitai Etzioni's Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Recent Publications.
Sue Kirchhoff for USA Today, on Monday, May 5, 2003 reported "95,000 lose manufacturing jobs in April." She tells us these laid off, unemployed workers held the highest skilled, best-paying jobs in our economy.
Quoting Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturing, Kirchhoff tells us the U.S. has lost 2.2 MILLION jobs since Bush took office in 2000. Quoting anonymous "analysts" saying they don't think the Fed will vote to lower interest rates, they warn us there "is no quick fix." In the eighth paragraph she explains what's REALLY going on here, with:
"Fifty years ago, a third of U.S. workers were in factories; today, that percentage is 1-in-10. With improved productivity, and increased competition from abroad, many industrial jobs that have disappeared will not return."
But don't worry everybody! There is a Third Way to look at this "problem."
The best "thinkers" in the world are going to solve our economic woes and show us how to live a better quality of life, a more moral, livable way to survive that benefits everyone, equally. It's going to be more just, you'll see. The Fabian solution will bring economic and social justice into alignment with environmental laws and behavior modifications. It just could not be accomplished while the U.S. had such a STRONG middle class. Social evolution cannot be disrupted by success's outside the dialectic argument.
But then again, hrm. If Socio-economics was founded by the Fabians, and the Fabians endorse a quiet implementation of socialist world government in every country, and the Fabians hosted Leon Trotsky in the U.S. and Lenin in London, BOTH prior to their triumphant return and eventual RULE in Moscow, what light does this speech by Trotsky in 1929 shed on what happened to American manufacturing in the LAST FIFTY YEARS? What IS socio-economics, exactly?
Leon Trotsky wrote "Disarmament and The United States of Europe," (reprinted in 1945 for the International Comintern) in which he predicted the "future" of American capitalism:
[beging quote] "In connection with this perspective, the leaders of the Comm. tern may once again repeat that we are unable to see anything ahead except the triumph of American capitalism. In much the same way, the petty bourgeois theoreticians of Narodnikism (Russian Populism) used to accuse the pioneer Russian Marxists of failing to see anything ahead except the victory of capital. ism. These two accusations are on a par. When we say that America is moving toward world domination, it does not at all mean that this domination will be completely realized, nor, all the less so, that after it is realized to one degree or another, it will endure for centuries or even decades. We are discussing a historical tendency which, in actuality, will be criss-crossed and modified by other historical tendencies. If the capitalist world were able to endure several more decades without revolutionary paroxysms, then these decades would unquestionably witness the uninterrupted growth of American world dictatorship. But the whole point is that this process will inevitably develop its own contradictions which will become coupled with all the other contradictions of the capitalist system. America will force Europe to strive for an ever increasing rationalization and at the same time will leave Europe an ever decreasing share of the world market. This will entail a steady aggravation of the difficulties in Europe. The competition among European states for a share of the world market will inevitably become aggravated. At the same time under the pressure of America, the European states will endeavor to coordinate their forces. This is the main source of Briand’s program of the United States of Europe. But whatever the various stages of the development may he, one thing is clear: The constant disruption of the world equilibrium in America’s favor will become the main source of crises and revolutionary convulsions in Europe throughout the entire coming period Those who hold that European stabilization is assured for decades understand nothing at all of the world situation and will inevitably sink head first in the swamp of reformism.
If this process is approached from across the Atlantic Ocean, i.e. from the standpoint of the fate of USA, then here too the perspectives opened up resemble least of all a blissful capitalist idyl. The prewar power of the United States grew on the basis of its internal market, i.e. the dynamic equilibrium between industry and agriculture. In this development the war has produced a sharp break. The United States exports capital and manufactured goods in ever greater volume. The growth of America’s world power means that the entire system of American industry and banking-that towering capitalist skyscrapers resting to an ever increasing measure on the foundations of world economy. But this foundation is mined, and the United States itself continues to add more mines to it day by day. By exporting commodities and capital, by building up its navy, by elbowing England aside, by buying up the key enterprises in Europe, by forcing its way into China, etc. American finance capital is digging with its own hands powder and dynamite cellars beneath its own foundation. Where will the fuse be lit? Whether it will be in Asia, Europe or Latin America-or what is most likely in various places at one and the same time that is a second-rate question. [boldface mine]
The whole misfortune is that the incumbent leadership of the Comintern is totally incapable of following all the stages of this gigantic process. It shies away from facts by means of platitudes. Even the pacifist agitation in favor of the United States of Europe has taken it by surprise." [endquote]
What does Trotsky mean by "American finance capital"? (and doesn't Etzioni write about national disarmament too? How similar to Trotsky is Etzioni's viewpoint? What IS the United States of Europe? Was it a foundation for a European Union?)
"In 1952, Congress commissioned the Cox Committee to investigate U.S. foundations. In 1953 it was the Reece Committee." Rene A. Wormser was its general counsel. He published "Foundations: Their Power and Influence." [Sevierville TN: Covenant House Books, 1993. 412 pages. First published in 1958 by Devin-Adair Company, New York.]
Wormser's name database on investigated American socialist-communist subversives is extensive. Wormser's site has an amazing chart linking the players in the Fabian movement in Britain and the United States.
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