More COUNTER-HEGEMONIC STRATEGY: Iran

Is Iran's Strategy Counter-Hegemonic?
The questions regarding variations in social development, economic progress, and political empowerment have produced a voluminous literature over the past century, and because of the complexity of these issues, much important reflection will continue well into the future. In the early 1980s, a United Nations' Commission coined the term "sustainable development" as a public statement regarding the deteriorating socio-economic, political, and environmental conditions. Since then, the use and abuse of the term has rendered it dubious and almost irrelevant. This paper proposes Comprehensive Sustainable Development (CSD) as a substitute in the hope that re-conceptualization of the term would incorporate critiques of various manifestations of capital's hegemony – its control over science and technology, particularly in the contemporary period, by way of restricting homegrown, national technological development. It is argued that in the pursuit of its interests contemporary global capitalism, as a continuation of the 19th and the 20th century colonialism/imperialism, is resorting to the policy of imperialism through the implementation of dependent industrialization (imported technology) rather than CSD.
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Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

There was nothing new in the paper I don't think, it could have been written fifty years ago. So it serves to illustrate the permanent ownership asperations and the enormous cost to humanity to maintain the upper and hidden classes.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ron in Regina

HEGEMONY (hegemonic): The processes by which dominant culture
maintains its dominant position: for example, the use of institutions to formalize
power; the employment of a bureaucracy to make power seem abstract (and, therefore,
not attached to any one individual); the inculcation of the populace in the ideals of the
hegomonic group through education, advertising, publication, etc.; the mobilization of a
police force as well as military personnel to subdue opposition.

-The global petroleum industry & Al Gore both suck.

-Saskatchewan will sell as much Potash as we can to help make agriculture on a
large scale as sustainable as possible.

-1/4 of the worlds population uses 3/4's of the worlds energy. Pollution is bad, and it's
getting worse....it doesn't matter where it originates, you'll be breathing or eating or
drinking it eventually.

-Biofuels are bad too, and couldn't financially exist without subsidies. Nuclear energy may be
a viable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels, and Saskatchewan will sell as much as possible
to help the world power itself. Don't use Nuclear material for bombs, 'cuz that's bad. Solar and
wind power can help curb the thirst for fossil fuels too.

-Capitalism favors the rich, and steps on the third world and southern hemisphere disproportionately.

I don't know why db and Zzarchov aren't all over this thread. Colonialism and Capitalism are
bad in the same thread.....it's a double whammy!!! Interesting, but very long.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyr

-Saskatchewan will sell as much Potash as we can to help make agriculture on a
large scale as sustainable as possible.

Not a bad deal as Potash Corp made $1.000.000.000 profit last year on the backs of 3rd world farmers

Quote: Originally Posted by Said1

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