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November 25, 1982

Use Your Head

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in larger amounts than indi- vidual business enterprises. However, when discoveries

are made in the military sec- tor, such as the development of integrated circuits in the U.S., there is little incentive to apply the discovery to civilian purposes due to the

guaranteed profitability of

government contracts. It was Japan that developed stand- ardized integrated circuits while American electronics

companies custom built for the military.

It appears that the vicious circle of nuclear arms prolif- eration can only be halted by a general restructuring of the economy in which resources are shifted from the slow- growing military sector to fa growing military sector to fast-growing industrial sec- tors. This would require planning and state interfer- ence, sure to be. strongly opposed by vested interests in the slow-growing sectors.

says nuclear stockpiles area fundamental part of, the world’s financial nomic structure. Big corpor-

John Kenneth Galbraith:

and eco-.

ations in the U.S.support arms proliferation because they need to develop wea- pons in order to expand their own technological base and stimulate their own growth. Because they are dependent on the underwriting of research and technological expansion on the production of arms for sale to the U.S. government, big U.S.corpor- ations identify themselves with the goals of the various armed services. In turn, the corporations exert pressure

on the American government to the degreee that congress- men are re-elected on the ba men are re-elected on the basis of their success in obtaining defense agree- ments for their constituen- cies. The power of the military- industrial complex can be seen in militaristic foreign policy. For instance, in the 1940's, American © aero- space companies threatened with bankruptcy were pre- served through the extension of military orders in that their productive capacity could be made available for

| mobilization in time 'of war. Galbraith says:

It is necessary that there

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which justifies or rational- izes the military expendi- tures that the arrangement requires. In the last twenty years, the relationship of the Cold War to the needs of the industrial system has been remarkably close. A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

In effect, the U.S. commit- ment to arms production has turned the U.S.economy into a system of defense social- ism in which the welfare of the country is tied to contin- ued growth of military tech- nology and arms prolifera- tion. America has become a weapons ‘culture, as have virtually :all of the highly industrialized countries: the masses have become social- ized to this weapons culture and their learned responses are adapted into the needs of the military-industrial wel- fare system. Erich Fromm calls this phenomenon the

‘“‘pathology of. normalcy;’’ Herbert Marcuse calls it ‘“‘one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society,’’ in which ‘‘we submit to the peaceful production of the ~ means of destruction, to the | perfection of waste, to being educated'for a defense which deforms. the defenders and that which they defend.”

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SPORTS SHORT

ach paper we will | publish a sports picture of one of 0.C- sports: This week it is girls volleyball

team. : Photo By : _Janice Miller. ) "