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18. Günter Grass cited by Marla Stone, “Nationalism and Identity in (Former) East Germany,” Tikkun, Vol. 7, No. 6, November/December 1992, pp. 41–46.
19. See Orlando Patterson, “Global Culture and the American Cosmos,” Paper No. 2 in the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Paper Series.
20. This is the theme of Walter B. Wriston, Twilight. “How does a national government measure capital formation when much new capital is intellectual?” Wriston asks (p. 12). The answer: they don’t. Wriston, who is the former chairman of Citicorp, is a little too much of a technological Pangloss, however, and his tendency to think it will all turn out in the end, as long as we recognize the new realities, detracts a little from his careful analysis of those realities. He relies heavily on earlier books on the information revolution and its effect on nationhood, like Ithiel de Sola Pool’s Technologies Without Boundaries (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990); Peter Drucker’s The New Realities (New York: Harper & Row, 1989); and George Gilder’s Microcosm (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989). An early study is F. A. Hayek’s Denationalisation of Money (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1976).
21. Former Secretary of State George Shultz as cited by Wriston, Twilight, p. 10.
22. The return of the Democratic Party to executive power in the United States thus changed nothing with respect to this market ideology. President Clinton was closely associated with the Democratic Leadership Council whose research arm was keen to put aside traditional democratic antibusiness rhetoric and make markets and government serve one another. In a widely discussed major foreign policy statement for the Clinton administration, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake indulged in a veritable celebration of the marriage of markets and democracy, using the phrase market democracy as if it were some ur-original formulation that could be found in the Magna Carta or the Federalist Papers. To an academic audience at Johns Hopkins University, he said “we contained a global threat to market democracies.” America must “consolidate new democracies and market economies …” and “help democracy and market economics take root in regions of greatest humanitarian concern” [emphasis added]. These “liberating forces” are what “create wealth and social dynamism.” On the other hand “backlash states” that resist these forces “tend to rot from within both economically and spiritually.” “Verbatim: A Call to Enlarge Democracy’s Reach,” The New York Times, September 26, 1993, Section 4, p. 3.
23. President Clinton’s secretary of state thus avowed in 1993 that his meeting with Boris Yeltsin had to be regarded as “an endorsement of democracy and free-market reform in Russia.” Warren Christopher, cited in Elaine Sciolino, “Clinton Will Visit Yeltsin,” The New York Times, October 23, 1993, p. A I.
24. The New York Times ran a front-page business section article by Philip Henon urging the Clinton administration to open the Vietnamese market under the unambiguous title: “Missing Out on a Glittering Market,” September 12, 1993, Section 3, p. i. Subsequently, that happened.
25. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “To Tame Savage Capitalism,” The New York Times, November 28, 1993, p. E II.
26. The Czech Republic boasts that its velvet revolution transformed “a totalitarian regime [in]to a democratic system and a profit-based economy,” but who exactly will profit remains to be seen. Cited from a Czech Republic advertising supplement in The New York Times (January 7, 1994) just prior to President Clinton’s meeting with President Havel in Prague in January 1994.
27. Robert McIntyre, “Why Communism Is Rising from the Ash Heap,” The Washington Post, National Weekly Edition, June 20–26, 1994, p. 24.
28. Brzezinski is properly exercised