i gotta face it playing lord keynes junior like i have recently
while sitting in a soft metropolitan chair here
near the city of the bean and the cod
ain't exactly rugged collectivism at its finest eh ???

and i'll confess i like to scrupple myself about this ..well at least once a week ..
every satrurday nite after i've let the three hun amigos out one last time
to lift a hind leg or two and maybe deficate somewhere obvious in the side yard
and after i've recaged the little bastards and i'm back warmly tucked in my midnite bed
domestic partner closely beside me in a fragrant purring sleep
it its my habit no it is my discilpine to set myself this poser:
okay comrade so your party has just seized power ...absolute power in..wait for it ...
bengladesh...okay wise guy so go make it happen cap'n

ya right not so easy there eh .... scylla and charybdis await me ..one way spells the howling savagery of primitive accumulation
the other the pusilanimous oozy slope to red corporate comprador
if the choice gets that stark i opt for ...
well lets delve in here some first ..
i know no better starting place then...well... give a warm smbiva welcome to
pol pot's larry summers former puppet president of democratic kampuchea presently i believe moldering
in a jail cell awaiting the proceddings of the cambodia tribunal ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia_Tribunal
ladies and gentlemen khieu samphan
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44237000/jpg/_44237700_khieu_ap203.jpg

his fearless leader mr pot armed with khieu's " development model" took the cambo people
to places no radical make over type outfit dared go
since the early days of thomas munzer and the anabaptists

http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/images/PolPot.jpg


it might be claimed in hind sight
these paris educated boys from the jungles and court palces of combodia
took what we now call anti globalization to its logical conclusion
....well maybe thats a bit unfair... .maybe there are other logical conclusions ...but at any rate
this man khieu and thru him party boss pol pot were indeed however just pragmatizing lessons they as students
learned from the likes of samir amin
http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/jpg/samir_20amin-copia.jpg
so called "dependency theory "a radical theory of dissent from the one big market world vision of corporate earth
a theory which doubtless in several forms you've bump into now and again on your anti empire travels... eh ???
i my self like to think of "dependency theory" as a model or better a cluster of kissin kousin models
of economic globalization as viewed thru the wrong end of "the system "'s
international sewer pipes

background:

back in the 50's of the last century our man khieu here was an amin acolyte
it was during his university days spent up there at the gallic metropole
in fact mr samphan citizen samphan became doctor samphan
with a dissertaion entitled "Cambodia's Economy and Industrial Development"
its thesis strongly guided by aminite wisdom comes to this :
backward peoples of the world wanna develop your national economy
a pro people way ???? then pull out all the trans nat plugs
yup and he meant or came to mean anyway
pull em out
kold turkey too

in the event
come the spring of 1975 --after a few bombs and a scrap or two along the way---
mr pol and comrade khieu and their fellow posse of rouge bandits entered the bloated phantasm then doing business as lon nol's
pro yankee phnom penh

yes they did indeed set about immediately pulling the plugs
no more dependency for cambodians
no more crumb begging
no more supine cargo culting
no more ... well my guess khieu back in paris worked this all out very neatly
just start from the top down lopping off
one layer after another of social hierarchy
until u arrive at some thing remarkably close
to billy bryan's populist insight
about the relative necessity of cities and countryside

conclusion:
once under the sway of ankor cambodia would in effect start from square one
go it all on its own
well square one like all of clio's legacies was a nasty place indeed
to begin the new jerusalem
not just the age old slowly morphing antique parasite city of the sihanouk years
squatting atop ...the toiling masses
there now was a frankensteins monster
built out of massive aerial counter insurgence
a hell's kitchen where roughly half the nations population
most fleeing devestation from yankee bombing and
a corrupt faux civil war
now languished in utter depraved uselessness
caught up in an existence restricted to
beggary handling sycophancy
and the dole
i the back alleys of the royal city teemed with a
spirituallu and physically decaying multitude

in the last analysis having survived for years
not off the sweat of their brows
but off the kindness of a stranger named uncle sam
who quite understandably given the utter defeat of his stoogery
had already pulled his plugs including the food plug of course
-- talk about dependency not in theory but in detailed fact ---

so what was to be done ???

"send em all to the countryside to fend for themselves ...create a system of volkish communes
and under the guardianship of ankor let the people themselves
with only the means and skills at hand
discover or rediscover the limits and the present possibilities
of living directly off our motherland "

i suspect your thoughts mightat this point begin to drift towards ned burke
yes okay score one for partial measures approach
here we have its opposite
and indeed there was a darkly bloody
deductive jacobin over soul at work here

just don't get going too far and
start munching on that aweful romish house lilly of a brit lord acton's crooked meme
sorry absolute power can't corrupt
if its still operating at immediate gun point

then again it can
surely do acton one better
it can kill at will

lets move on ....

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returning to the present with its komforting klintonian kompromises

http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/02/sachshund.html#comments

speaking of compromise
recently i suggested here that development economist dani rodrick
unlike such dancing death heads as doc sachs might well be one of Clio's goodly social agents
well if that's so i must add it's not because he's a stout battler agin the yankee empire
no it's just because his heart and his brain are solidly on the side of the emerging world
as evidenced in his three wishes for a reformation of our planetary market order

regretably dani has not nor will he ever i suspect declare jihad agin the rule of the trans nat corporations
nor the essence of their co-joint program to make the whole earth sustainably safe
for their type of free range limited liability adventures in private profit


he instead presents his trilemma

you can't have all three of these goodies brothers and sisters

an open world market
national self determination
and
democracy

you can have any two
but not all three
owens lemma
and sometimes you can have none

re enter bengla desh

to be continued