At 9:10 PM -0700 10/26/04, James A. Donald wrote:
fantasy that the US attacked Korea, and attacked to impose poverty on Koreans so that the US can be rich,
This is actually the running fantasy in Marxism since the 1950's, when it turned out that that, instead of the "workers" eating the "bourgeoisie" by the firelight or some Glorious Revolution or another, would instead be come "bourgeoisie" themselves. So, seeing their utter failure to create "workers" paradise in the industrial West, they decided to change their unit of "analysis" from people to nation-states. Of course, India, various parts of broken up legislated or forcibly-conquered pseudostates, like Slovenia, the Baltics, even Mongolia and China itself, have shown that "capitalism" -- Marx's word for "economics", or "markets", or "individual freedom" depending on your scale of "analysis" -- has the same effect there that it did in the US and Europe in the 1950's. Or the 1850's, for that matter. Marxists, and their fellow-travellers of all dilutions, from actual card-carriers to "liberals" in the US are such worthess assholes, and such "state-is-a-person" "analyses" are so much projectile excrement from same. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'