Excerped from an article linked from a forum I belong to:
“[T]he division of the world into rival nation states, A BASIC CHARACTERISTIC OF CAPITALISM, stymies any rational and systematic international cooperation. ” {emphasis mine}
It’s not only amazing when people quote editorials as authoritative, but when they are from a source so far from center as to be more a source of guffaws for people with a basic understanding of history and politics … well … it blows my mind. You’d have to be a fanatic to still buy an iota of this sort of long-since bankrupt philosophy. In some strange way it reminds me of how FLDS and some other cult groups wear the same out-of-style clothing for generations — they are oblivious to the fact that the world has changed.