From: Dave Zachariah (davez@KTH.SE)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 13:02:07 EST
on 2008-01-30 13:57 Jerry Levy wrote: > We were just talking yesterday about the prospects for > a unified world economy and government. I'm sceptical > of the claims made in the following video, but it's > worth a watch. > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBo4E77ZXo> > > Which parts of this scenario are more likely to > happen than others? > I'm quite skeptical about this clip too. However, the point about a North American Union was new to me. If I may speculate further: I think it is consistent with the tendency of capital to eliminate all geographical, social and political barriers to the free movement of commodities, capital and labour. If it were left to capitalist logic alone, there would be a single global state apparatus whose only purpose would be to keep regions open to profit-making and to protect private property. Of course, capitalist societies do not evolve according to the tendencies of capital alone. //Dave Z
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