Re: GLOBAL KEYNESIANISM

I hav been reading this debate with interest. In Australia both major
parties have been committed to globalism and I guess broadly speaking neo
liberal polices for nearly 20 years. Some segments of society - urban middle
and upper class elites have done very well. Traditional industrial workers,
the young, country people and small town dwellers have done poorly. This is
the social backgtound to the radical right movement that flouriseged under
the ausoices of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party a few years ago. becasue
of the total absence of any serious left wing inspired movements in
Australia, the populace when dissatisfied are easy prey to the xenophobic
right. Anyway, it seems to me that government here and probably elsewhere
sees the population not an entity whom they are to servce and whose
interests they are to advance, but as a captive body to be delivered,
packaged and primed, into the maws of maultinational cirportatins wheter as
willing and mindless consumers or as cheap producers.

Thanks for the opportunity to share some feelings,
Cedric Beidatsch