It's difficult to understand why Gunder Frank's recent works, e.g., The
Cold War and Me and his book with Gills, largely have been ignored in
recent postings. Even his older publications on the facades of policy
and policy-makers are relevant to the many of the postings.
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Adam K. Webb wrote:
> This posting deals with what to many comrades seems the less
> compelling of our current two topics--world government. The assumption by
> many on our list, and in Wagar's "Short History of the Future," is that a
> movement such as the World Party should devote considerable attention to
> cross-regional mass support, including in the North. I fully support the
> idea of a coordinated global movement to restructure world order, but I
> have a simple question for all of you. Does anyone seriously expect
> Northern populations not to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into
> a new order?
> Rather, such a movement should devise a strategy for assuming
> power globally over the opposition of this fifteen percent of the
> population. This would involve bogging the USA+EU+Japan down in
> pan-Southern counterinsurgency, fomenting immigrant and underclass
> volatility, destabilising Northern economies by disrupting transnational
> economic links (eg. oil), splitting the Northern leadership as it attempts
> to save its own necks, and ultimately carrying out an occupation of those
> areas of the world that consistently obstruct majority will. Such a
> strategy, I emphasise, would bypass Southern governments altogether as
> wholly irrelevant in the new transnational order. A truly global
> movement, in other words....
> Any reactions? (I am thankful rotten tomatoes do not travel by
> e-mail....)
>
> Regards,
> --AKW
>
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