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[integer at www.god-emil.dk]

>can one find the rest of this essay somewhere? or is it being written as
>posted?


emotion generally occurs before body motion [be it pleasant or the form of xy pleasant



>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 integer at www.god-emil.dk wrote:
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>> >The story should mention the forgotten 1960's and 70's when the west opened i
>ts checkbooks
>> >to Romania, extending favorable loans at favorable rates;
>> ...
>> >This was followed by the ugly 1980's, when the west cut off Romania from cred
>its,
>> >despite her being the world's _only example of full debt repayment (you know 
>those debts
>> >you paid with "nu nea lasat sa ne distram" - life = full of ironies); cut her
> off
>> >from the world markets, from energy imports, and from diplomatic recognition,
>> >and then sanctioned the political crime committed against its president.
>>
>>
>> If socialist economies had not opened themselves to capital import
>> and to debt servicing, perhaps their collision with capitalist time [speedup]
>> would have been less jarring - or would at least have occurred on more equal t
>erms.
>>
>> But the capitalist definition of time prevailed, as socialist debtors bowed to
> its
>> dictates. Because its leaders accepted western temporal hegemony, socialism's 
>messianic
>> time proved apocalyptic. The irony is that had debtor regimes refused the defi
>nitions
>> imposed from without - had they united to default simultaneously on their west
>ern loans
>> [which in 81 stood at over 90bil] - they might well have brought down the worl
>d financial
>> system and realized Khrushchev's threatening prophecy overnight.
>>
>> That this did not happen shows how vital a thing was capitalists' monopoly on 
>the
>> definition of social reality.
>>
>> "We shall bury you"