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THE CLINTON VISION
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Noam Chomsky
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ISBN 1-873176-92-9
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CD 56 minutes
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$12.98
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For those among you who have had the pleasure of hearing Noam
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Chomsky fire one of his critiques at the rule of capital, this CD
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will give you the opportunity to enjoy and learn once again. For
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those who haven't heard this anarcho-syndicalist Doctor Who of
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the Academy, here's your chance to listen to him as he blows the
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media smoke away from the Clinton Presidency, while he holds the
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mirror of logic to the face of lesser evil.
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How does he do it?
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Being a world renowned expert in the field of linguistics helps.
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But don't let that scare you. Chomsky is as easy to understand
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as a clear blue sky. He follows his usual method here. By taking
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quotes from the most "respectable" of sources--the "Wall Street
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Journal", the "New York Times", U.N. statistical documents and
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Bill Clinton's own speeches--he is able to expose the smell of
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burnt human flesh underlying the cost-efficiency ethics of the
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ruling class chefs--in this case their Chief Executive Officer in
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the State apparatus.
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So, what is the Clinton Vision?
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Listen to this CD as Chomsky makes it stand up on its three hind
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legs--the globalization of capital, the replacement of bourgeois
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democracy with corporate totalitarianism, and the gulagization of
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unproductive (of profit) members of the proletariat.
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The globalization of capital has and is being ratified in various
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international trade agreements: NAFTA, GATT and the Asian
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Pacific Agreement. Noam chooses to illustrate this by using
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Clinton's visit to the Boeing complex to sign the APA. According
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to the Clinton Vision, Boeing sets an example for the future of
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U.S. capital in the New World Order. Boeing, a company whose
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stockholders enjoy immense State subsidy in the form of research
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and development costs via the military, is that hybrid of current
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successful market competitiveness. Little did you know that when
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you hopped that jet to Newark, you were riding in a modified
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bomber design. The mingling of the State and capital is the
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model of the Clinton Vision, whether it is Boeing, Cray Computer
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or the nuclear power industry in the U.S.A.. That this model of
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capital is being ratified in agreement after agreement on a world
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scale shows that other ruling classes realize the same vision.
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Needless to say, Chomsky makes it clear that their interests and
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ours are not the same.
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Linked to this notion for the need to ratify corporate/State
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capital's dominion over the world market by "agreement" is the
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corollary need to distance control over political decision making
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from the unwashed masses. As if the distance were not already
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great enough, agreements like NAFTA, the APA and so on tend to
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have clauses embedded in them which prohibit national entities
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from passing laws which conflict with their "agreed" on
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positions. Thus the governing model of the Clinton Vision is
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more and more closely aligned with the totalitarian operating
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structure of the modern corporation and less and less with the
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republican form of government initiated by the American
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revolutionaries of the 18th Century.
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Connected to both the international agreements and the increasing
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attraction of the corporate power pyramid as a means of political
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rule, is the answer to that age old capitalist question--"what to
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do with the unemployed?". The Clinton Crime Bill and the billion
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dollar prison construction plans are no accident of history.
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We're not rebuilding the infrastructure here; we're constructing
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the gulag of the future for those who, according to Chomsky, have
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no value to the privileged elites of the U.S.A.. "Human beings
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have value only in so far as they contribute to profit making."
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Seems to be the prime directive of the modern bourgeois
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"Enterprise".
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This lecture provides us with both a lesson in contemporary
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political economy and an example of how to cut through the crap
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of media mystification. The "Clinton Vision" demonstrates
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conclusively that relying on the lesser evil is not the solution.
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The hard truth is that we can only depend on ourselves, organized
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as One Big Union.
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Mike Ballard
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This review is from the pages of the "Industrial Worker", newspaper
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