Ainda sobre a crise

Há dias, David Osler escrevia o seguinte:

Despite my political past, it is comparatively rare for me to quote Trotsky approvingly these days. But the Old Man makes some pertinent points on this score in no less a work than the Transitional Programme, when he writes:

The banks concentrate in their hands the actual command over the economy. In their structure the banks express in a concentrated form the entire structure of modern capital …

[I]t is necessary to merge all the banks into a single national institution, he writes, and goes on to call for the expropriation of the private banks and the concentration of the entire credit system in the hands of the state

A single national bank in state hands would obviously be unworkable. It would be unnecessarily bureaucratic and open to political abuse. But a substantial degree of so9cial ownership in financial services has always struck me as a good idea.

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As I argue below [aqui], the ‘conservatorship’ of Freddie and was not in any sense an anti-capitalist measure; it was a pro-capitalist necessity. But the free market fundamentalist administration of Dubya has effectively implemented the form, if not the content, of a key Trotskyist policy. These are the times in which we live.

Lembrei-me desse artigo ao ler isto: "Estados Unidos apelam a que outros países preparem planos de intervenção" (em vez do plano de intervenção num só país).