Economic nationalism puts the willies up the intelligence and media snipers Aldo Moro was murdered when he was close to bringing the Christian Democrats and the Communists to an understanding in Italy. For many decades around the world and most crucially now, in the Euro-American war, it’s so often social democracy that is at stake, and under fire. The intelligence and media snipers, and the economic and military weapons are aimed not at the chimera of socialism or communism, but at even the mildest forms of state regulation (that swearword!), the slightest hints of economic nationalism. That’s what scares ‘em. In the crosshairs are those who try to build, sustain, defend or articulate, even for a historical moment, a project at local, national or regional level that is secular, and even mildly Keynesian. This makes for a motley mix of torch-bearers who are in the firing line, or were in their time. Spot the players, mark out the board, in today’s Gr eat Game. In my ...
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