It has highly selective import tariffs in order to protect certain industries e.g.steel.
There is no real free press or news media, which either is, or is allowed to be, truly critical of the State. The role of the media is to 'manufacture consent' as Chomsky has ably demonstrated, and to propagate the propaganda and ideology that will facilitate the reproduction of the political status quo.
The aim of all its foreign policy is to develop and foster new trading markets and 'spheres of influence'. This masquerades as 'promoting democracy'.This is analagous to the role of Russia in Eastern Europe during the post war period, until the recent breakup of the Soviet 'Union'.
Work and freedom are inextricably bound together. The US concept of 'freedom' is realised through work and is contingent on it.
These are all classic hallmarks of a Communist State. So, was Abraham Lincoln really the first Marxist-Leninist and a founding father of the biggest communist state on the planet?
2007-06-21
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