Clinton is right to say that ‘food is not a commodity like others. We should go back to a policy of maximum food self-sufficiency. It is crazy for us to think we can develop countries around the world without increasing their ability to feed themselves.’ There are at least two things to add here. First, developed Western countries have taken great care to maintain their own food self-sufficiency through financial support for their farmers (farm subsidies account for almost half of the entire EU budget). Second, the list of things which are not ‘commodities like others’ is much longer: apart from food (and defence, as all patriots are aware), there are water, energy, the environment, culture, education, health – who will make decisions about these, if they cannot be left to the market? It is here that the question of Communism has to be raised again." (Thanks Marcy)
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Use your illusions
Slavoj Žižek's "Use your illusions" on Obama's election and other pressing world matters like the Congo war, Mitterand's involvement in the Rwandan genocide and the crisis of global capitalism. Essential
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