i responded to the part that most needed corretion.

On your first point, conventional wisdom may dictate so, but all things are relative and so growing at around 5% is only viewed as a bad thing because previous growth was so rapid. However, take 5% on it's own and it's a good record.

I also agree with Levi that on the whole we ought to want economies to slow down as current growth is unsustainable given the finite nature of resources.

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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?