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globalization isnt a state--its a group of processes. you cant be coherent about them if you treat them as elements of a state which simply appear, which have no history. the conditions of possiblity for globalizing capitalism--i mean the active enabling conditions--include a number of things done by the nixon administration too--internationalization of stock trade, going off the bretton woods arrangement, the dismantling of the new deal agricultural subsidy system, etc. the reagan period was largely about using enormous military expenditures to stimlate the economy--and rigging indices so that things which didnt respond werent counted. it was also about union busting, but that's another story.
end digression.
actual response to the thread to follow.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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