Official: IMF admits the failure of the Greek program

[nomoba]

An attempt by the IMF to officialize its new tactics

http://bit.ly/1R6FJDp

[cyu]

The IMF is just the "technocratic" arm of capitalism. Of course its programs fail. Capitalism is meant to fail for the lower classes. That's why homelessness is not considered failure in capitalism. That's just part of the "successful" implementation of IMF policy. Slavery is not established for the benefit of the slaves.

[ckaihatsu]

Can we start calling it the 'Kingdom of Europe' now -- ?


(8^p

[Matteo]

The IMF is all about ideological coercion, and for corporate entities to impose their presence on states.

[ckaihatsu]

The B u l l e t

Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 1114
May 11, 2015

Socialist Project - home


Hegemony in the Making:

Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant

Rainer Rilling
(Translation by Eric Canepa)

http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1114.php

[Matteo]

The IMF is just the "technocratic" arm of capitalism. Of course its programs fail. Capitalism is meant to fail for the lower classes. That's why homelessness is not considered failure in capitalism. That's just part of the "successful" implementation of IMF policy. Slavery is not established for the benefit of the slaves.

I don't think the IMF has anything to do with capitalism. On a rudimentary level, sure, but the IMF is purely designed to advance economic and political imperialistic agendas. A socialist state could do the same.

[cyu]

When capitalists don't care about homeless people, it's expected.

When socialists don't care about homeless people, they're not really socialists.

[ckaihatsu]

I don't think the IMF has anything to do with capitalism. On a rudimentary level, sure, but the IMF is purely designed to advance economic and political imperialistic agendas. A socialist state could do the same.


Any comparison of (bourgeois, capitalist) imperialism to past Soviet expansionism is a facile comparison, and incorrect -- capitalism uses *expropriation* of surplus labor value into private hands, while the former USSR administered production goods and consumer goods in a *collectivist* way, internal to the nation-state itself, albeit by a bureaucratic elite. So while the Soviet state was expansionist it *wasn't* imperialist, because that implies vying for foreign labor to exploit and new markets for the dumping of cheap goods (and for the exporting of capital goods).

[Matteo]

Any comparison of (bourgeois, capitalist) imperialism to past Soviet expansionism is a facile comparison, and incorrect -- capitalism uses *expropriation* of surplus labor value into private hands, while the former USSR administered production goods and consumer goods in a *collectivist* way, internal to the nation-state itself, albeit by a bureaucratic elite. So while the Soviet state was expansionist it *wasn't* imperialist, because that implies vying for foreign labor to exploit and new markets for the dumping of cheap goods (and for the exporting of capital goods).

I never made a comparison to the Soviet Union. I was being hypothetical.