on full employment: its not capitalism's goal.this point is important.as
you know,the last version of the definition of full employment means: if
there is no inflation this is full employment.the unemployment rate at
this level is the natural rate of unemployment.Anyway,full employment is
a cost which capitalism cannot afford.They can live with it only
temporarily.
on south korea: many countries try growth thanks to cheap labor.Only
south Korea succeed. I think the crucial point here the relationships
between park chung hee dictatorship and dominant classes. The
sate,especially ( only ?) in 1960's , manipulated the people who has the
power of money. They forced to invest the areas hee government want,
they pay taxes and the people who attempt capital flight abroad faced
punishment.This is the strategy which new left of third world must
try.But not under dictatorship military or not,but under democracy.This
is the core of the new strategy of the new left I think. Globalisation
is the rule of the game.Becouse you have not the weapons to deal with
it.So,you try to play this game whatever you want.
on environment problems: After the note of Mark Jones you,once again
began to dance on the ground you like very much : abstract problems of
the long run . today's environmental problems: if the north continue to
eat like this and if the south continue to populate like this,we cannot
continue.This is clear. Rapid growth of population..one of the problems
that left don't like to talk.Little girls sold in Thailand,thousands of
people died due to starvation and poverty,ext.,ext....How many times we
continue just to look at this and say:"oh,poor people.we must abolish
capitalist relations of production to help them". The strategy I offer
can slow the rapid population growth. And,I don't know whether this is a
gift of god or something another: New technologies are friends of nature
,at least,in many respects.And if the redistribution of world income in
favor of third world realizes,north must turn to healthy feed !
(really)..