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...world has grown more dangerous in the past few months. Tension over oil and the unrelenting growth of the Soviet arsenal have sent shock waves into the American system. "Nuclear war is becoming more probable," laments Richard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies. Yes, confesses one of President Carter's principal strategic planners, there is "a change in attitude" in the White House. There is the growing realization that the U.S. must sustain and demonstrate its power, even be prepared...
...first day I went to work as an economist for the Department of Agriculture, I was assigned to a nine-by-twelve cubicle, to be shared with my supervisor. Bob Barnet had a Ph.D. in economics, but was prouder of a pin he had just been awarded marking his 20 years of Government service. Barnet showed me the ropes, then leaned back and laid out his philosophy of how to succeed in the bureaucracy: please your boss, cover your ass and always, always be cautious. Patience was the greatest virtue. The way to get ahead was not to outshine everyone...
...Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...
Similarly, Barnet and Mueller recognize that the labor policies of the global corporations require the development of an international labor movement capable of dealing with a corporation as a whole, although they present a good account of the obstacles to such a movement. But they are also sympathetic to the protectionist maneuvers of conservative American organized labor, which have the effect of preserving the jobs of some American workers at the expense of accentuating sectional divisions within the working class at home and abroad, undermining the internationalism which they recognize is the only viable long-term strategy for fighting...
...economy and a socialized national economy. It is therefore a mistake for radicals to advocate a strategy for coping with the power of the global corporations which attacks precisely their most progressive aspect in the name of the backward-looking, defensive appeals of anti-trust and economic nationalism, as Barnet and Mueller end up doing. There are of course serious obstacles to such an internationalist course--not the least of which may be a well-founded belief on the part of the American working class that solidarity with workers in other countries may not be in the short-term interests...