Re: [Fwd: Klein and Bello] (fwd)

In an online discussion recently, Ms. Klein had the following to
say about the review:
  
  Walden Bello is one of my personal heroes and frankly, I agree with 
  much of his critique of No Logo. I just wrote him a long letter
  about it, actually. He's right about the limits of brand based 
  campaigning and I've been trying very hard to address that in my work 
  since No Logo.

(source: http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?128@100.DDvYcdJjVPh^0@.ee824c9 )

Some of her recent work is available at http://www.nologo.org/ 

Michael

On 01 May 18:51, Andre Gunder Frank wrote:
> 
> Hello Eric and Gunder,
> 
> Eric, per your suggestion I picked up Klein's book.  I thought you and
> Gunder might be interested in Bello's review of it.  The review only becomes
> interesting half-way through when it engages critique of that book grounded
> in the relationship between patents, monopoly, and global overcapacity.
> 
> We are all aware of these themes, but it is increasingly clear that the US
> has engaged the East Asia challenge with a two-fold strategy, which is
> intellectually contradictory, but of course in harmony if we see it as
> merely in the predatory self-interest of US/multi-national capital.  The
> first component is trade and financial liberalization for US
> finance/business to penetrate East Asian/global markets in order to exact
> rents.  The other is in protectionism in the form of extended patents on the
> highest tech products, of which the US has  a quasi-monopoly.    All
> well-known, but too often treated individually, rather than focusing on them
> in tandem, which reveals the hypocrisy of the strategy as intellectually
> employed  in the service of global development
> 
> Activists/intellectuals might politically profit by pointing out this
> contradiction more vigorously, rather than treating these two facets
> separately....
> 
> All the best,  Jeff
>