Saturday 6 February 2010

Invicta?

Port of Dover to be sold. To the French, as it happens. But if it were to the Germans, the Americans, the Russians, the Saudis, the Israelis, the Chinese, the Indians, or whoever, then the point would be the same. This is the "free" market in action. You can have capitalism, or you can have, among so very many other good things, national sovereignty. You cannot have both.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, exactly. Sometimes I wonder if the neoliberals purposely engineer these economic crashes in order to have an excuse for flogging off public assets. I guess that is probably a bit of a stretch, but the neoliberals do take advantage of bad economic times to push for more privatization, that is for sure.

    Of course, we ought to be doing the opposite, having the government intervene to restrain the power of capital in favor of the common good and national sovereignty.

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